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Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas

by: Sylviane Diouf

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.6971073
EAN: 9780814719053
ISBN: 0814719058
Label: NYU Press
Manufacturer: NYU Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 253
Publication Date: November 01, 1998
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date: November 01, 1998
Sales Rank: 575031
Studio: NYU Press



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Despite the explosion of works on African Americans and religious history, little is known about the Muslims who came to America as slaves. Most assume that what Muslim faith any Africans did bring with them was quickly absorbed into the new Christian milieu. But, surprisingly, as Sylviane A. Diouf shows in this new, meticulously researched volume, Islam flourished during slavery.

This book presents a history of African Muslims following them from West Africa to the Americas. It details how, even while enslaved, many Muslims managed to follow most of the precepts of Islam. Literate in Arabic, urbane and well-traveled, they drew on their organization and the strength of their faith to maintain successful, cohesive communities and to play a major role in the most well-known slave uprisings.

Servants of Allah is the first book to examine the role of Islam in the lives of both individual practitioners and in the American slave community as a whole, while also shedding light on the legacy of Islam in today's American and Caribbean cultures.



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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A must Historical Book
Very well and detailed written ,this book gives you an insight on the enslaved Muslims in America ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - African Muslims and the Struggle for Freedom
This book has brought tears to my eyes as well as joy. This book should be read by all people especially ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Finally a sincere, well-researched text on a group who has been kept silent far too long.
Diouf's "Servants of Allah" is one of the few highly researched and well written accounts of the West African ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - EXCELLENT PIECE OF WRITING!
This is an excellent piece of writing and deserves to be read by anyone interested in the history of the Transantlatic ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Good, but flawed
This is a significant study that suffers, however, from insufficient knowledge of Islam.

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