Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas, 15th Anniversary Edition Sira An earnest search for truth

An earnest search for truth

as well as those of a purely Indian Muslim origin

and Communities promotes leadership in the democratization of culture to counter the current hegemony of domination and cultivate an alternative hegemony of collaboration

this work offers an in-depth discussion of ritual purity (taharah)

She holds an Oxford doctorate

Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas, 15th Anniversary Edition Sira An earnest search for truthIlluminates how African Muslims drew on Islam while enslaved, and how their faith ultimately played a role in the African Disapora 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, groundbreaking