Paper: Rethinking the “Bilali Diary” : multiple contexts and Muslim slaves
This paper explores the reasons why Bilali Mohammed, a Muslim slave who lived on Sapelo Island produced his Arabic document, known as the Ben Ali…
This paper explores the reasons why Bilali Mohammed, a Muslim slave who lived on Sapelo Island produced his Arabic document, known as the Ben Ali…
Muslim slaves – involuntary immigrants, who had been the urban-ruling elite in West Africa – constituted at least 15% of the slave population in North…
“Wherever sugar went, slavery followed it like a parasite.” Dr. Umar Faruq Abd’Allah, scholar-in-residence at the Nawawi Foundation,Chicago, U.S.A. Between March 26 and April 7,…
This is the story of Afro-American Muslims who served on the side of the British the Anglo American war of 1815 who were resettled in…
Gomez, Michael A. Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 385 pp. This book, Black…
The Muslim Standard was published (61 issues) in Trinidad from 1975 to 1984. It was official monthly magazine of the Islamic Trust which was founded…
“Servants of Allah opens a new door on the African Diaspora and provides readers with even more insight into Islam, as well as enslaved Africans….
Access original post on BBC here. Nearly three million pilgrims have been performing the Islamic Pilgrimage in Mecca, the holiest city in Islam. Amongst them,…
SADAQA AMONG AFRICAN MUSLIMS ENSLAVED IN THE AMERICAS Islam as brought by the West Africans has not survived in the Americas, but its impact has…
A Select Bibliography of Enslaved African Muslims in the Americas and the Caribbean Click above for bibliography Introduction Despite an Islamic presence in the Western…