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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diouf, Sylviane A. (Sylviane Anna), 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History--To 1863.

African Americans.

Muslims, Black--America--History.

Muslims, Black.

Muslims, Black--United States--History.

Enslaved persons--Religious life--America--History.

Enslaved persons.

Enslaved persons--Religious life--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [1998]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 new Christian milieu. But, surprisingly, as Sylviane Diouf shows in this new, 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 to the Americas. It details how, even while enslaved many Black Muslims managed to follow most of the precepts o

Contents:

CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction: An Understudied Presence and Legacy; 1 African Muslims, Christian Europeans, and theAtlantic Slave Trade; 2 Upholding the Five Pillars of Islam in a Hostile World; 3 The Muslim Community; 4 Literacy: A Distinction and a Danger; 5 Resistance, Revolts, and Returns to Africa; 6 The Muslim Legacy; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-246) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8147-8530-1

0-585-31754-2

OCLC:

782878080

Publisher Number:

2027/heb31019 hdl