I Cannot Write My Life : Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar ibn Said's America /
"This work centers on the life and writing of Omar Ibn Said, born in 1770 in a border region between Senegal and Mauritania that played a significant role in Islamic nations. Omar studied for 25 years at an Islamic seminary and was poised to become a leader in the faith, but after being capture...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés Arabic |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2023]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- A land lost
- A life unread
- Sermons unheard
- A Muslim in church
- The treachery of the experts
- Appendix. Omar's ʻAjamī English: American Words and Names in Arabic Script.