Synopsis
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.
This edition presents the English translation on pages facing facsimile pages of Ibn Said's Arabic narrative, augmented by Alryyes's comprehensive introduction and by photographs, maps, and other writings by Omar Ibn Said. The volume also includes contextual essays and historical commentary by literary critics and scholars of Islam and the African diaspora: Michael A. Gomez, Allan D. Austin, Robert J. Allison, Sylviane A. Diouf, Ghada Osman, and Camille F. Forbes. 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.
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Review
Ala Alryyes is associate professor of comparative literature and English at Yale. He is author of Original Subjects: The Child, the Novel, and the Nation. He lives in Brooklyn.
"Then there came to our country a big army. It killed many people. It took me, and walked me to the big Sea, and sold me into hands of a Christian man."-Omar Ibn Said
A Muslim American Slave
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. This edition presents the English translation on pages facing facsimile pages of Ibn Said’s Arabic narrative, augmented by Alryyes’s comprehensive introduction and by photographs, maps, and other writings by Omar Ibn Said. The volume also includes contextual essays and historical commentary by literary critics and scholars of Islam and the African diaspora: Michael A. Gomez, Allan D. Austin, Robert J. Allison, Sylviane A. Diouf, Ghada Osman, and Camille F. Forbes. 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. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians
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24 ʿUmar ibn Sayyid, A Muslim American Slave : The Life of Omar Ibn Said , trans. and ed. Ala A. Alryyes (Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press, 2011), 63. 25 See Alryyes, “Arabic Work”; Austin, African Muslims in Antebellum America ..."
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Ibn Said , Omar. A Muslim American Slave : The Life of Omar Ibn Said . Trans. and ed. Ala Alryyes. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. Jameson, John Franklin, ed. “ Autobiography of Omar Ibn Said , Slave in North Carolina, 1831."
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9 Bailey told me this in a 2004 interview for the San Francisco Chronicle that was included in the story , ' Muslim Roots of the Blues', published 15 ... 12 Omar ibn Said , Autobiography of Omar ibn Said , Slave in North Carolina, 1831, ed."
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Autobiography scholars will likely hear echoes of Philippe Lejeune's “Genetic Studies of Life Writing” in Bryant's prose. ... A Muslim American Slave : The Life of Omar ibn Said . Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2011."
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A Muslim American Slave : The Life of Omar ibn Said (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011). 9 Nicholas Said , The Autobiography of Nicholas Said , A Native of Bornou, Eastern Soudan, Central Africa (Memphis ..."
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A Muslim American Slave : The Life of Omar ibn Said , Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 3–46. Austin, A. (1984) African Muslims in Antebellum America : A Sourcebook, New York: Garland Publishing."
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Carolina and opens for business in August 1908 at 112 Parrish Street on Durham's “Black Wall Street. ... Source: From Timothy B . Tyson . “ Robert F . Williams : 'Black ... Radio Free Dixie : Robert F . Williams and the Roots of Black Power ."
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Essays on Sufism and Islamic Studies Carl W. Ernst ... 32 Ibn Khaldūn, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History , trans. ... 34 “Oh ye Americans ”: The Autobiography of Omar ibn Said , National Humanities Center Resource Toolbox, ..."
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See Omar Ibn Said , A Muslim American Slave : The Life of Omar Ibn Said , trans. and ed. Ala Alryyes (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011); and J. C. Turk, “Building an American Bridge in Burma,” World's Work 2 (September 1901): ..."
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Notes to Chapter 11 “great houses”: Omar ibn Said , quoted in Ala Alryyes, A Muslim American Slave (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011), 89. “Then there came to our country”; “weak, small, evil man called Johnson”: Ibid., ..."
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Whereas previously many slaveholders had feared slaves with religion—and the example of Turner himself confirmed their ... Ala Alryyes, trans. and ed., A Muslim American Slave : The Life of Omar Ibn Said (Madison: University of Wisconsin ..."
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Calcott , George H. " Omar ibn Said , A Slave Who Wrote an Autobiography in Arabic . " Journal of Negro History 39 ( 1954 ) : 58-63 . 72. Curtin , Phillip D. , ed . Africa Remembered . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press ..."
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Calcott , George H. " Omar ibn Said , A Slave Who Wrote an Autobiography in Arabic . " Journal of Negro History 39 ( 1954 ) : 58-63 . 72. Curtin , Phillip D. , ed . Africa Remembered . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press ..."
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Lawrence Oschinsky , " Islam in Chicago : A Study of the Acculturation of a Muslim - Palestinian Community in That ... George H. Calcott , " Omar ibn Said , A Slave Who Wrote an Autobiography in Ara- bic , " Journal of Negro History 39 ..."
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Joao Jose Reis, Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993). 89. ... “ Autobiography of Omar ibn Said ,” (October 1924): 792–95; Dwight, “Condition and Character,” 50."
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This act provided, in fact, an opening into the Muslim hinterland for the young Arabic studies program of the ... SELECTED READINGS “ Autobiography of Omar ibn Said , Slave in North Carolina, 1831,” American Historical Review, XXX, No."
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Johnston, Harry Hamilton, The History of a Slave , ed. and introduced by Lovejoy, Paul E., Princeton: Markus Wiener, ... A Muslim American Slave : The Life of Omar Ibn Said , Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011; Austin, Allan D., ..."
Ilmu falak
Astronomical calculations to determine qiblah, prayer times, and fasting based on Islamic calendar with a reference to Indonesia.
Astronomical calculations to determine qiblah, prayer times, and fasting based on Islamic calendar with a reference to Indonesia."
Wisconsin African Studies News & Notes
In her work , Reem analyzes Omar ibn Said's and Bilali Muhammad's writings to explore how they used Arabic to renegotiate their ... Tracing Identity in African Muslim Slave Writings in America , as an African Studies Sandwich Seminar ."
Membangun Kembali Pemikiran Agama dalam Islam
Muhammad Iqbal work, titled The Reconstruction of Religious Though in Islam, is widely distributed in English, but the Indonesian version of dissemination is still limited due to content, presentation, and opportunities that are difficult for most readers. Therefore this work is presented in two Indonesian-English, the optimal choice of words, and relatively easy to obtain through electronic media.
Therefore this work is presented in two Indonesian-English, the optimal choice of words, and relatively easy to obtain through electronic media."
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