Muslim American slave : the life of Omar Ibn Said / translated from the Arabic, edited, and with an introduction by Ala Alryyes.

Name: Muslim American slave : the life of Omar Ibn Said / translated from the Arabic, edited, and with an introduction by Ala Alryyes.
Author: Alryyes, Ala A., 1963- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjJBFTCxbrDyVVG46rmRgC

Title	Muslim American slave : the life of Omar Ibn Said / translated from the Arabic, edited, and with an introduction by Ala Alryyes.
Author	Alryyes, Ala A., 1963- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjJBFTCxbrDyVVG46rmRgC
Publication Date:	2011
Publication Place	- University of Wisconsin Press
Subject	Said, Omar ibn, 1770?-1863., Slave narratives -- North Carolina., Enslaved persons' writings, American., Enslaved persons -- North Carolina -- Biography., African American Muslims -- North Carolina -- Biography., Slavery -- United States -- History -- Sources.
Type	Book
Language	English
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Pages Count	222
Physical Dimensions	1 online resource (xii, 222 pages) : illustrations, facsimile, maps
Library:	University College Dublin Library
Library Asset ID	40019677821
Record ID	b3165381
Library Location	In collection: Ebook Central Academic Complete UKI Edition
Date	2011
Sample Text	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. 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. 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.
Bibliyografya	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Seri	Wisconsin studies in autobiography, Wisconsin studies in autobiography.

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Muslim American slave : the life of Omar Ibn Said / translated from the Arabic, edited, and with an introduction by Ala Alryyes.

Author Alryyes, Ala A., 1963- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjJBFTCxbrDyVVG46rmRgC

Publication Date 2011

Publication Place - University of Wisconsin Press

Subject Said, Omar ibn, 1770?-1863., Slave narratives -- North Carolina., Enslaved persons' writings, American., Enslaved persons -- North Carolina -- Biography., African American Muslims -- North Carolina -- Biography., Slavery -- United States -- History -- Sources.

Type Book

Language English

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Pages Count 222

Physical Dimensions 1 online resource (xii, 222 pages) : illustrations, facsimile, maps

Library University College Dublin Library

Library Asset ID 40019677821

Record ID b3165381

Library Location In collection: Ebook Central Academic Complete UKI Edition

Date 2011

Sample Text 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. 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. 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.

Bibliyografya Includes bibliographical references and index.

Seri Wisconsin studies in autobiography, Wisconsin studies in autobiography.