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Sylviane A. Diouf is an award-winning historian of the African Diaspora.

Sylviane A. She is the author of Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons and Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas, both with NYU Press.

Servants of Allah is the first book to examine the role of Islam in the lives of both individual practitioners and in the American slave community as a whole, while also shedding light on the legacy of Islam in today's American and Caribbean cultures.

Published by: NYU Press. Servants of Allah is the first book to examine the role of Islam in the lives of both individual practitioners and in the American slave community as a whole, while also shedding light on the legacy of Islam in today's American and Caribbean cultures. Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 1999. eISBN: 978-0-8147-8530-0.

Illuminates how African Muslims drew on Islam while enslaved, and how their faith ultimately played a role in the African Disapora Servants of Allah . Sylviane A.

Illuminates how African Muslims drew on Islam while enslaved, and how their faith ultimately played a role in the African Disapora Servants of Allah presents a history of African Muslims. She is the author of Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons and Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas-named Choice Outstanding Academic Book in 1999-both with NYU Press.

Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas (New York University Press, 1998), the first book on. .

She authored a book on the lives of children enslaved in the United States, Growing Up in Slavery (Lerner Publishing Group, 2001); and her fiction book Bintou’s Braids (Chronicle Books, 2001) has been published in the USA, France, and Brazil.

Servants of Allah presents a history of African Muslim slaves, following them from Africa to the Americas. It details how, even while enslaved many Black Muslims managed to follow most of the precepts of their religion. Literate, urban, and well traveled, Black Muslims drew on their organization and the strength of their beliefs to play a major part in the most well known slave uprisings. Though Islam did not survive in the Americas in its orthodox form, its mark can be found in certain religions, traditions, and artistic creations of people of African descent.

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Servants of Allah book. Servants of Allah presents a history of African Muslim slaves, following them from Africa to the Americas. whether Muslim or not! This is an important piece of our collective history that is widely overlooked and unknown to most of us. I recently read this book for a Muslim book club that I lead.

Sylviane Diouf's Servants of Allah is a welcome contribution to our understanding of a critical moment in.Her focus is the collective experience of African Muslims enslaved in the New World.

Sylviane Diouf's Servants of Allah is a welcome contribution to our understanding of a critical moment in the African Diaspora. Diouf's premise is that Muslims maintained their religious and cultural integrity, indeed their identity, in the face of daunting odds ) The author's insight into Islamic almsgiving in the form of saraka cakes in the Georgia Sea islands is intriguing. The section on Muslim dress in the third chapter is well presented.

Servants of Allah-Choice 1999 Outstanding Academic Title and Honorable mention Outstanding Books Award .

Servants of Allah-Choice 1999 Outstanding Academic Title and Honorable mention Outstanding Books Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights-illuminates the role of Islam in the lives of both individual practitioners and communities, and shows that though the religion did not survive in the Americas in its orthodox form, its mark can be found in certain religions, traditions, an.

Home Browse Books Book details, Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved i.Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas. By Sylviane A. Diouf. Servants of Allah presents a history of African Muslims, following them from West Africa to the Americas. Diouf is an award-winning historian specializing in the history of the African Diaspora, African Muslims, the slave trade and slavery.