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Author Said, Omar ibn, 1770?-1863.

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

Publication Info. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 222 pages) : illustrations, facsimile, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Wisconsin studies in autobiography
Wisconsin studies in autobiography.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary <DIV> 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. <DIV> 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.</DIV><DIV> 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.</DIV></DIV>
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Language English translations on pages facing facsim. pages of Arabic text.
Subject Said, Omar ibn, 1770?-1863.
Said, Omar ibn, 1770?-1863.
Said, Omar ibn, 1770?-1863 or 1864.
Said, Omar ibn, MARC+97MARC+86d́ 1770?-1863 or 4.
Slave narratives -- North Carolina.
Slave narratives.
North Carolina.
Enslaved persons' writings, American.
Enslaved persons' writings, American.
Enslaved persons -- North Carolina -- Biography.
Enslaved persons.
African American Muslims -- North Carolina -- Biography.
African American Muslims.
Slavery -- United States -- History -- Sources.
Slavery.
United States.
History.
Genre/Form Sources.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Added Author Alryyes, Ala A., 1963-
Other Form: Print version: Said, Omar ibn, 1770?-1863 or 4. Muslim American slave. Madison, Wis. : The University of Wisconsin Press, ©2011 9780299249540 (DLC) 2010044625 (OCoLC)674935213
ISBN 9780299249533 (electronic book)
0299249530 (electronic book)
128324439X
9781283244398
9780299249540
0299249549