African Muslims in Antebellum America
Title | African Muslims in Antebellum America PDF eBook |
Author | Allan D. Austin |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 215 |
Release | 2012-11-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 113604454X |
A condensation and updating of his African Muslims in Antebellum America: A Sourcebook (1984), noted scholar of antebellum black writing and history Dr. Allan D. Austin explores, via portraits, documents, maps, and texts, the lives of 50 sub-Saharan non-peasant Muslim Africans caught in the slave trade between 1730 and 1860. Also includes five maps.
African Muslims in Antebellum America
Title | African Muslims in Antebellum America PDF eBook |
Author | Allan D. Austin |
Publisher | Scholarly Title |
Total Pages | 788 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
African Muslims in Antebellum America
Title | African Muslims in Antebellum America PDF eBook |
Author | Allan D. Austin |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 2 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN |
Servants of Allah
Title | Servants of Allah PDF eBook |
Author | Sylviane A. Diouf |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 1998-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 081471904X |
Diouf examines the role Islam played in the culture of African slaves in the Americas.
Islam in the African-American Experience
Title | Islam in the African-American Experience PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Brent Turner |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | 358 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN | 9780253343239 |
The involvement of African Americans with Islam reaches back to the earliest days of the African presence in North America. This book explores these roots in the Middle East, West Africa and antebellum America.
A Muslim American Slave
Title | A Muslim American Slave PDF eBook |
Author | Omar Ibn Said |
Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 2011-07-20 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0299249530 |
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 prominent North Carolina family after filling “the walls of his room with piteous petitions to be released, all written in the Arabic language,” as one local newspaper reported. Ibn Said soon became a local celebrity, and in 1831 he was asked to write his life story, producing the only known surviving American slave narrative written in Arabic. In A Muslim American Slave, scholar and translator Ala Alryyes offers both a definitive translation and an authoritative edition of this singularly important work, lending new insights into the early history of Islam in America and exploring the multiple, shifting interpretations of Ibn Said’s narrative by the nineteenth-century missionaries, ethnographers, and intellectuals who championed it. This edition presents the English translation on pages facing facsimile pages of Ibn Said’s Arabic narrative, augmented by Alryyes’s comprehensive introduction, contextual essays and historical commentary by leading literary critics and scholars of Islam and the African diaspora, photographs, maps, and other writings by Omar Ibn Said. The result is an invaluable addition to our understanding of writings by enslaved Americans and a timely reminder that “Islam” and “America” are not mutually exclusive terms. This edition presents the English translation on pages facing facsimile pages of Ibn Said’s Arabic narrative, augmented by Alryyes’s comprehensive introduction and by photographs, maps, and other writings by Omar Ibn Said. The volume also includes contextual essays and historical commentary by literary critics and scholars of Islam and the African diaspora: Michael A. Gomez, Allan D. Austin, Robert J. Allison, Sylviane A. Diouf, Ghada Osman, and Camille F. Forbes. The result is an invaluable addition to our understanding of writings by enslaved Americans and a timely reminder that “Islam” and “America” are not mutually exclusive terms. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians
Black Crescent
Title | Black Crescent PDF eBook |
Author | Michael A. Gomez |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 408 |
Release | 2005-03-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521840958 |
Beginning with Latin America in the fifteenth century, this book, first published in 2005, is a social history of the experiences of African Muslims and their descendants throughout the Americas, including the Caribbean. The record under slavery is examined, as is the post-slavery period into the twentieth century. The experiences vary, arguably due to some extent to the Old World context. Muslim revolts in Brazil are also discussed, especially in 1835, by way of a nuanced analysis. The second part of the book looks at the emergence of Islam among the African-descended in the United States in the twentieth century, with successive chapters on Noble Drew Ali, Elijah Muhammad, and Malcolm X, with a view to explaining how orthodoxy arose from varied unorthodox roots.