Du’as of the Enslaved: The Malê Slave Rebellion in Bahía, Brazil
Reproduced from Yaqeen Institute, original post here, with permission. In Ramadan of 1835, a group of enslaved African Muslim clerics in Salvador of Bahía, Brazil…
Reproduced from Yaqeen Institute, original post here, with permission. In Ramadan of 1835, a group of enslaved African Muslim clerics in Salvador of Bahía, Brazil…
This article was originally posted on Imanwire here I returned recently from a journey embarked upon with a group of beautiful souls to the West…
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Long before today’s anxiety about terror attacks, Spain and England feared that enslaved Africans would be more susceptible to revolt if they were Muslim On…