Resisting Islamophobia via [Redacted] Prayers in the Handwritten Autobiographies of ʿUmar ibn Sayyid and Mohamedou Ould Slahi
The current political climate in the United States lends fresh urgency to the task of remembering the history of enslaved Africans in the Americas, a history that has become vital for understanding today's Islamophobia. To begin this task, this article examines the invocation of the African Mus...
| Subtitles: | Roundtable Africana Perspectives on Islamophobia |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
[2019]
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| In: |
Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 163-171 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Slahi, Mohamedou Ould 1970-
/ Said, Omar ibn ca. ca. 1770 bis 1864
/ USA
/ Autobiography
/ Slavery
/ Islamophobia
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam KBQ North America NCD Political ethics TJ Modern history TK Recent history |
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| Summary: | The current political climate in the United States lends fresh urgency to the task of remembering the history of enslaved Africans in the Americas, a history that has become vital for understanding today's Islamophobia. To begin this task, this article examines the invocation of the African Muslim slave in Mohamedou Ould Slahi's memoir, Guantánamo Diary, alongside ʿUmar ibn Sayyid's slave autobiography, and expands readings of Islamic prayer in carceral spaces. |
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| ISSN: | 2165-5413 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Africana religions
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