REL 0876 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sheikh, Dhikr, Ali
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Islam in america and its past, present, and future in philadelphia. The first muslims in america were enslaved africans. Percentages of africans imported into north america from regions containing. Parts of this population predates the british colonies, in spanish florida and french. Of 481k african slaves brought to british na, 230k came from areas with an. Difficult to say, as islam was relatively new in some of these areas whereas centuries old in others, thus the percentage of muslims in each region varied. Yet even many non-muslim slaves were influenced by islam, knowledgeable of tenets of the faith and enthusiastic consumers of islamic amulets. Anglophone slaveholders distinguished between various ethnicities within the. Slaves from senegambia and sierra leone called mandingo . Clearly muslim names in advertisements for slaves. Bullaly (bilali), mustapha, sambo, bocarrey (bukhari; abu bakr), mamado (mamadu) I knew several who must have been, from what i have since learned,
