Servants of Allah : : African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas /

Servants of Allah : : African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas / / Sylviane A. Diouf.

Illuminates how African Muslims drew on Islam while enslaved, and how their faith ultimately played a role in the African DisaporaServants of Allah presents a history of African Muslims, following them from West Africa to the Americas. Although many assume that what Muslim faith they brought with th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Diouf, Sylviane A.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction to the 15th Anniversary Edition
  • 1. African Muslims, Christian Europeans, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
  • 2. Upholding the Five Pillars of Islam in a Hostile World
  • 3. The Muslim Community
  • 4. Literacy
  • 5. Resistance, Revolts, and Returns to Africa
  • 6. The Muslim Legacy
  • Notes
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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