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Five classic Muslim slave narratives : Selim Aga, Job Ben Salaiman, Nicholas Said, Omar ibn Said, Abu Bakr Sadiq / edited by Muhammad A. Al-Ahari.

Contributor Bluett, Thomas.

Edition Statement:1st ed.

Imprint:Chicago : Magribine Press, c2006.

Description210 p. ; 23 cm.

Note:Rescuing Arabic and English Islamic slave narratives from the shifting sands of time ; the historicity of Muslim slave narratives in the Americas / Muhammad A. Al-Ahari -- Some memoirs of the life of Job, the son of Solomon / Thomas Bluett (1734) -- Incidents connected with the life of Salim Aga, a native of Central Africa / Selim Aga (1846) -- Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, slave in North Carolina (1831) -- The autobiobraphy of Nicholas Said: a native of Bornou, Eastern Soudan -- Nicholas Said (1873) -- 'Abu Bekr Sheriff of Timbuktoo /written in Jamaica 1834.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-209).

Library Shelf Location Call Number Item Status
Buhl LibraryBuhl - Open Stacks E444 .F58 2006 Available

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Contributor
Bluett, Thomas.
Al-Ahari, Muhammad A.
Aga, Selim.
Ben Sulaiman, Job.
Said, Nicholas, 1836-1882.
Said, Omar ibn, 1770?-1863.
Sadiq, Abu Bakr.
Series Statement
American Islamic heritage series.
Subject:
Aga, Selim.
Ben Sulaiman, Job.
Said, Nicholas, 1836-1882.
Said, Omar ibn, 1770?-1863.
Sadiq, Abu Bakr.
Subject:
Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography.
African Americans -- History -- To 1863 -- Sources.
Muslims -- History -- Sources.
Slavery -- United States -- History -- Sources.
Enslaved persons -- America -- History -- Sources.
Slavery -- America -- History -- Sources.
Muslims -- America -- History -- Sources.
Enslaved persons' writings, American.
Index Term - Genre/Form
Primary sources.
Autobiographies.