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

Said, Omar ibn, 1770?-1863 or 4.
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2011.
Added to CLICnet on 05/06/2014

English translations on pages facing facsim. pages of Arabic text.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Arabic work, Islam, and American literature / Ala Alryyes — The life of Omar Ibn Said, written by himself / translated by Ala Alryyes — Autobiography of Omar Ibn Said, slave in North Carolina, 1831 / translated by Isaac Bird with an introduction and notes by J. Franklin Jameson — Muslims in early America / Michael A. Gomez — Contemporary contexts for Omar’s Life and life / Allan D. Austin — The United States and Barbary Coast slavery / Robert J. Allison — God does not allow kings to enslave their people : Islamic reformists and the transatlantic slave trade / Sylviane A. Diouf — Representing the West in the Arabic language: the slave narrative of Omar Ibn Said / Ghada Osman and Camille F. Forbes — Appendix 1: Omar’s earliest known manuscript (1819) / Translated by John Hunwick — Appendix 2: Letter from Reverend Isaac Bird, of Hartford, Connecticut, to Theodore Dwight, of Brooklyn, New York (April 1, 1862) — Appendix 3: Uncle Moreau, from North Carolina University Magazine (September 1854) — Appendix 4: Ralph Gurley’s Secretary’s Report, from African Repository and Colonial Journal (July 1837).

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