Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas

4/11/01

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Table of Contents

Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas

Differences between Islamic and Euro-American slavery systems

How so many Muslims ended up as slaves

Five Pillars of Islam

Muslim Lifestyle

Muslim Lifestyle: Dietary Rules

Relationship between Muslim Slaves and Christian Slaveholders

Literacy among African Muslim slaves: a distinction

Preservation of Literacy by African Muslim slaves

Applications of Literacy

Muslim’s Role in Slave Revolts

Barriers to Vertical and Horizontal Growth of Islam

Islamic Influence on African-American Religions and Music

Why Muslims have been ignored by scholarly research on slavery

Author: Tasmia Shariff