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200 10$aServants of Allah $eAfrican Muslims enslaved in the Americas /$fSylviane A. Diouf
210  1$aNew York :$cNew York University Press,$d[1998]
210  4$dİ1998
215   $a1 online resource (265 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-8147-1904-X 
311   $a0-8147-1905-8 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 235-246) and index.
327   $aCONTENTS; 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
330   $aDespite 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
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