A Muslim American slave: the life of Omar Ibn Said
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index <DIV> 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. <DIV> 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.</DIV><DIV> 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.</DIV></DIV> |
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spelling | Said, Omar ibn Verfasser aut A Muslim American slave the life of Omar Ibn Said translated from the Arabic, edited, and with an introduction by Ala Alryyes Madison, Wis. University of Wisconsin Press ©2011 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 222 pages) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Wisconsin studies in autobiography Includes bibliographical references and index <DIV> 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. <DIV> 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.</DIV><DIV> 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.</DIV></DIV> English translations on pages facing facsim. pages of Arabic text Said, Omar ibn / 1770?-1863 or 1864 fast Said, Omar ibn / 1770?-1863 or 4 Said, Omar ibn 1770?-1863 or 1864 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery bisacsh BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Scientists & Psychologists bisacsh African American Muslims fast Slave narratives fast Slavery fast Slaves fast Slaves' writings, American fast Geschichte Sklaverei Slave narratives North Carolina Slaves' writings, American Slaves North Carolina Biography African American Muslims North Carolina Biography Slavery United States History Sources USA (DE-588)4006804-3 Biografie gnd-content (DE-588)4135952-5 Quelle gnd-content Alryyes, Ala A. Sonstige oth http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=354980 Aggregator Volltext |
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