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Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas, 15th Anniversary Edition

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Servants of Allah presents a history of African Muslims, following them from West Africa to the Americas. Even though many assume that what Muslim faith they brought with them to the Americas was once quickly absorbed into the new Christian milieu, as Sylviane A. Diouf demonstrates in this meticulously-researched, groundbreaking volume, Islam flourished throughout slavery on a big scale. She details how, even whilst enslaved, many Muslims managed to follow a number of the precepts of their religion. Literate, urban, and well-traveled, 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 in large part 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 live to tell the tale in the Americas in its orthodox form, its mark may also be found in certain religions, traditions, and artistic creations of people of African descent. 
 
This 15th anniversary edition has been up to date to include new materials and analysis, a review of developments in the field, prospects for new research, and new illustrations.
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