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Title:

Five classic muslim slave narratives : Selim Aga, Job Ben Sulaiman, Nicholas Said, Omar ibn Said, Abu Bakr Sadiq / ed. by Muhammad A. Al-Ahari.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Magribine Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

210 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Slaves--United States--Biography.--Biography.
African Americans--Sources.--To 1863--Sources.--Sources.
Muslims--United States--Sources.--Sources.--Sources.
Slavery--United States--Sources.
Slaves--America--Sources.
Slavery--America--Sources.
Muslims--America--Sources.
Slaves' writings, American.

Other Authors:

Al-Ahari, Muhammad A.
Aga, Selim.
Sulaiman, Job Ben.
Said, Nicholas, 1836-1882
Said, Omar ibn, 1770?-1863 or 1864.
Sadiq, Abu Bakr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-209).

Contents:

Rescuing Arabic and English Islamic slave narratives from the shifting sands of time : the historicity of muslim slave narratives in the Americas / Muhammad A. al-Ahari -- Some memoirs of the life of Job, the son of Solomon / Thomas Bluett (1734) -- Incidents connected with the life of Selim Aga, a native of Central Africa / Selim Aga (1846) -- Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, slave in North Carolina, 1831 -- The autobiography of Nicholas Said : a native of Bornou, Eastern Soudan / Nicholas Said (1873) -- 'Abu Bekr Sheriff of Timbuktoo / written in Jamaica 1834.

Series:

American Islamic heritage series

OCLC:

(OCoLC)191804779

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)