Servents of Allah
Growing up with both West African and Muslim background, Sylviane A. Diouf decided to research and inform the world that there were Muslims involved in the slave trade. Diouf was so confident that these stories existed that she started her research along the pan-Africanist as well as the pan-Amercanist lines.After her research she decided to write a book about what she had discovered entitled Servants of Allah. Diouf says her objective was to "humanize" the individual Africans who were enslaved and detach them from the mass of what we call slaves.During her research Diouf says that she found there was a slight difference between the British, Dutch, Spanish, French, and the United States slave systems. She also discovered there were some cultural differences between the Mandingo, Fulani, and Hausa. In matters of religion, formal education, and found out that in many ways that as Islam transpires in daily life, they all shared a similar set of attitudes and beliefs.Diouf received her Doctoral from L'Universite' Denis Diderot in Paris. She has published hundred's of articles in both the International and local magazines and newspapers. One of her textbook is now apart of the 11th grade curriculum (Economic Sciences), in F
This is causing many to reverting to their original faith and not a new one. While in communal solidarity the Muslims decided to use their knowledge of Arabic at time in order to serve as common and secret languages for planning revolts. Despite all of this the Muslims still banned together. Many fail to realize that Muslims had a large role in establishing maroon communities and leading slave rebellions, dominating their planning and leadership. In 1503 request were being sent from Dominican Republic to Spain to ban the import of Muslim slaves to the "New World". I did however encounter some problems when names were being mentioned (some with the meaning while the others were without). What we fail to realize that these people were doctors, pharmacist, lawyers, architectures, mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters. Many Muslims refused to convert to Christianity. Naturally the Muslims were not at ease with their slavery. Diouf has written for the United Nations and contributed to numerous academic journals such as; Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, a bilingual journal of the African Studies Department of New York and the Journal of Islamic Studies of Oxford University. When the last Muslims of slave background died in the 1920's they (the Muslims) never let the truth be forgotten. She stated that Muslims rose to the top of the slavery hierarchy and were returned to Africa more frequently. Remember "The African Muslims may have been, in the Americas, the slaves of Christian masters, but their minds were Servants of Allah". When reading the book Servants of Allah we realize that it consisted of a detailed reconstruction of the Muslim slave efforts in the United States in order to maintain an Islamic way of life. Most were unsuccessful regarding freedom- which caused the freedom fighters to become ruthlesslessly crushed, hanged, burned and even thrown in boiling oil.
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