Servants of Allah
African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11801015 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Brent Turner |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1704-1704 |
| Publication date | 2000-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas, Sylviane A Diouf, 2020 |
| Venue | The American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2652053 |
| OpenAlex | W2321645675 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Servants of Allah presents a history of African Muslims, following them from West Africa to the Americas. Although many assume that what Muslim faith they brought with them to the Americas was quickly absorbed into the new Christian milieu, as Sylviane A. Diouf demonstrates in this meticulously-researched, ground-breaking volume, Islam flourished during slavery on a large scale. She details how, even while enslaved, many Muslims managed to follow most of the precepts of their religion. Literate, urban, and well-travelled, they drew on their organization, solidarity and the strength of their beliefs to play a major part in the most well-known slave uprisings. But for all their accomplishments and contributions to the history and cultures of the African Diaspora, the Muslims have been largely ignored. Servants of Allah - a Choice 1999 Outstanding Academic Title - illuminates the role of Islam in the lives of both individual practitioners and communities, and shows that though the religion did not survive in the Americas in its orthodox form, its mark can be found in certain religions, traditions, and artistic creations of people of African descent. Sylviane A. Diouf is an award-winning historian specializing in the history of the African Diaspora, African Muslims, the slave trade and slavery. She is the author of Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons (NYU Press 2013) and Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America, and the editor of Fighting The Slave Trade: West African Strategies
African descent · Ancient history · Archaeology · Diaspora · Ethnology · Faith · History of Africa · Islam · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Theology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies
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Migration and Racial Formations Among Somali Immigrants in North America
The Transnational and Diasporic Future of African American Religions in the United States
Arabic as a Heritage Language in the United States
A Measure of Islamophobia
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The Study of Islam and Muslim Communities in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Americas
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Divergent Perspectives on Islam in America
The Islamic Origins of Spanish Florida's Ft. Musa
Flying While Muslim and Driving While Black
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Bound to Africa
Writing on the Wall
Pedagogy, Colonialism, and the Possibilities of Belonging
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The urban background of Enslaved Muslims in the Americas
Marking the American landscape
Embodying the Mahdi
Between absence and presence
Mourning the greatest
Religious Microaggressions
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |