Islam and Enslaved Africans in Early Charleston

A Selected Reading List, prepared by Dr. Nic Butler, 12 March 2020

Al-Ahari, Muhammad A. Five Classic Muslim Slave Narratives. Chicago: Magribine Press, 2006. Alford, Terry. Prince among Slaves: The True Story of an African Prince Sold into Slavery in the American South. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. Austin, Allan D. African Muslims in Antebellum America: Transatlantic Stories and Spiritual Struggles. London: Routledge, 1997. Curtis, Edward E. IV. Muslims in America: A Short History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Creel, Margaret Washington. “A Peculiar People”: Slave Religion and Community-Culture Among the Gullahs. New York: New York University Press, 1988. Diouf, Sylviane A. Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas. New York: New York University Press, 1998. Fields-Black, Edda. Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. GhaneaBassiri, Kambiz. A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Gomez, Michael. Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Gomez, Michael. Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Hunwick, John O. “I Wish to be Seen in Our Land Called Afrika: Umar b. Sayyid’s Appeal to be Released from Slavery (1819).” Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies 5 (2003–4): 62–77. Klein, Herbert S. The Atlantic Slave Trade. Second edition. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010. Littlefield, Daniel C. Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the Slave Trade in Colonial South Carolina. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981. Lovejoy, Paul. Jihad in West Africa During the Age of Revolutions. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2016. Said, Omar ibn. A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar ibn Said. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. Sparks, Randy J. Africans In the Old South: Mapping Exceptional Lives across the Atlantic World. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. Turner, Richard Brent. Islam in the African-American Experience. Second ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. Ware, Rudolf. The Walking Qur’an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Windley, Lathan A. Runaway Slave Advertisements: A Documentary History from the 1730s to 1790. Volume 3: South Carolina. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983.

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