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History of Islam in Africa, David Northrup

Allah’s Garden: A True Story of a Forgotten War in the Sahara Desert of Morocco $5.49 A former Peace Corps Volunteer’s riveting nonfiction narrative delivers a captivating tale of dire hardship, faith, and human courage in Morocco. Allah’s Garden focuses on a Moroccan doctor’s 25-year detention by a militant group in prison camps within the Sahara Desert. This plight is interwoven with the author’s own engaging travelogue while in the North African region….

Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas $11.50 Despite the explosion of works on African Americans and religious history, little is known about the Muslims who came to America as slaves. Most assume that what Muslim faith any Africans did bring with them was quickly absorbed into the new Christian milieu. But, surprisingly, as Sylviane A. Diouf shows in this new, meticulously researched volume, Islam flourished during slavery. This book pre…

Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500-1800 (Early Modern History) $24.26 This is a study that digs deeply into this “other” slavery, the bondage of Europeans by north-African Muslims that flourished during the same centuries as the heyday of the trans-Atlantic trade from sub-Saharan Africa to the Americas. Here are explored–perhaps for the first time–the actual extent of Barbary Coast slavery, the dynamic relationship between master and slave, and the effects of this…