Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas, 15th Anniversary Edition - Softcover

"Servants of Allah remains an important scholarly work, significant in retrieving historical memory and as a testament of religious endurance under dislocation, separation, and enslavement. Beyond the familiar assumptions of struggle, survival, and liberation, the book points to the vigorous intellectual life of Islam in which New World Muslim Africans participated. Diouf has put her finger on a critical impulse when she draws out the transnational dimensions of Islamic scholarship that sustained learning and practice among the besieged Muslim Africans, which makes the irony of the decline of Muslim life during slavery in the Americas all the more striking."-Lamin Sanneh,Yale University "A must read for anyone interested in the early history of Islam in the African American community. Diouf goes beyond generalities and sheds light on the lives of transplanted Muslims who have become an important block in the rewriting of the history of Islam in the United States, providing heroic examples of adjustment and survival in a hostile environment."-Yvonne Haddad,Georgetown University "For scholars and non-scholars, Servants of Allah provides a sweeping but accessible introduction to the history of Islam across the Western Hemisphere and over the entire four-hundred year history of enslavement."-Journal of Islamic Studies

·       “A must read... Goes beyond generalities and sheds light.” – Yvonne Haddad, Georgetown University

“An important scholarly work... a testament.” – Lamin Sanneh, Yale University