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Language: en
Pages: 264
Pages: 264
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-11 - Publisher: NYU Press
Explores the stories of African Muslim slaves in the New World. The author argues that although Islam as brought by the Africans did not outlive the last slaves
Language: en
Pages: 270
Pages: 270
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-11-01 - Publisher: NYU Press
Despite the explosion in work on African American and religious history, little is known about Black Muslims who came to America as slaves. Most assume that wha
Language: en
Pages: 270
Pages: 270
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-11 - Publisher: NYU Press
Servants of Allah presents a history of African Muslims, following them from West Africa to the Americas. Although many assume that what Muslim faith they broug
Language: en
Pages: 352
Pages: 352
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-04 - Publisher: NYU Press
"Even while enslaved, many Muslims managed to follow most of the precepts of their religion [...] 'Servants of Allah' illuminates the role of Islam both in the
Language: en
Pages: 240
Pages: 240
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-20 - Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Born to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United States, where he came to the attention of a
