TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lo,Mbaye
AU  - Ernst,Carl W.
AU  - Said,Omar ibn
TI  - I cannot write my life: Islam, Arabic, and slavery in Omar ibn Said's America 
T2  - Islamic civilization and Muslim networks
SN  - 9781469674667
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Said, Omar ibn,
KW  - Muslim scholars
KW  - Africa, West
KW  - Biography
KW  - Enslaved Muslims
KW  - North Carolina
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; A land lost -- A life unread -- Sermons unheard -- A Muslim in church -- The treachery of the experts -- Appendix. Omar's ʻAjamī English: American Words and Names in Arabic Script
N2  - "This work centers on the life and writing of Omar Ibn Said, born in 1770 in a border region between Senegal and Mauritania that played a significant role in Islamic nations. Omar studied for 25 years at an Islamic seminary and was poised to become a leader in the faith, but after being captured by an invading army, he fell into the hands of transatlantic slave traders. He was sold to a plantation owner near Charleston, South Carolina, in 1808. What we know of Omar's life comes largely from a series of brief autobiographical writings and transcriptions, comprising the only known narrative written in Arabic by an enslaved person in North America. In this book, Mbaye Lo and Carl Ernst weave fresh and accurate translations of Omar's writing together with context and interpretation to provide the fullest possible account of this West African Islamic scholar's life and significance"--
ER  -