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Servants of Allah African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
by Diouf, Sylviane A.
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- Comments: unknown. 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 what Muslim faith any Africans did bring with them was quickly absorbed into the Good Christian milieu. But, surprisingly, as Sylviane Diouf shows in this Good, meticulously researched volume, Islam flourished during slavery on a large scale.Servants of Allah presents a history of African Muslim slaves, following them from Africa...
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- ISBN-13: 9780814719053
- ISBN: 0814719058
- Publication Date: 1998
- Publisher: New York Univ Pr
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"This historical study is ground-breaking not only in its theme but also its approach, which can be described as pan-Africanist to the extent that it relates the histories of these deported Muslims to the political upheavals of medieval Africa...; forges links between the varied sites of their dispersal from the 16th to the 19th century...; and examines the issue of return to Africa and the lineage (or the absence thereof) of this first American Islam...[it] has a wealth of arguments that provoke reflection...."Diouf, Sylviane A. is the author of 'Servants of Allah African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas', published 1998 under ISBN 9780814719053 and ISBN 0814719058.
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