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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
Author | : Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division |
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Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Africa |
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Author | : Thomas Leiper Kane |
Publisher | : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |
Total Pages | : 2390 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Amharic language |
ISBN | : 9783447028714 |
Author | : Sven Rubenson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Ethiopia |
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Author | : Siegbert Uhlig |
Publisher | : Harrassowitz |
Total Pages | : 1242 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
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The encyclopedia for the Horn of Africa treats all important terms of the history of ideas of this central region between Orient and Africa. After its completion the set will comprise five volumes four text and one index volume with altogether approx. 4000 articles. The topics range from basic data over archaeology, ethnology and anthropology, history, the languages and lit-eratures up to the art, religion and culture.
Author | : Vicente L. Rafael |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822313410 |
In an innovative mix of history, anthropology, and post-colonial theory, Vicente L. Rafael examines the role of language in the religious conversion of the Tagalogs to Catholicism and their subsequent colonization during the early period (1580-1705) of Spanish rule in the Philippines. By tracing this history of communication between Spaniards and Tagalogs, Rafael maps the conditions that made possible both the emergence of a colonial regime and resistance to it. Originally published in 1988, this new paperback edition contains an updated preface that places the book in theoretical relation to other recent works in cultural studies and comparative colonialism.
Author | : Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Africa |
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Author | : Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division |
Publisher | : Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Africa |
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Author | : Library of Congress |
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Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Author | : Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division |
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Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1975 |
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