Jeffrey Einboden

Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives

The Lost Story of Enslaved Africans, Their Arabic Letters, and an American President

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Produktbeschreibung

On October 4, 1807, Thomas Jefferson was handed documents written entirely in Arabic, penned by two African Muslims fleeing captivity in rural Kentucky. Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives recounts the untold story of escaped West African slaves in the American heartland whose Arabic writings reached a sitting U.S. President, prompting him to intervene on their behalf. Revealing Jefferson's lifelong entanglements with slavery and Islam, Jeffrey Einboden uncovers the lost Muslim manuscripts which circulated among Jefferson and his prominent peers, while questioning why such vital legacies from the American past have been entirely forgotten.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9780190844479
• ISBN-10: 0190844477
• Artikelnr.: 56787899

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Einboden is Professor of English at Northern Illinois University and a 2017 Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. Einboden's most recent books include The Islamic Lineage of American Literary Culture (Oxford, 2016) and Islam and Romanticism (2014). He is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a 2011 award supporting Einboden's recovery, translation and teaching of Arabic slave writings.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: "Beyond Oure Expressing"
Chapter 3: "The Original Treaty in Arabic"
Chapter 4: "Written in fair Arabic Characters"
Chapter 5: "I take Refuge with the Lord of Daybreak"
Chapter 6: "His name is 'Usman''
Chapter 7: "Combinations of Letters"
Chapter 8: "Go to Mecca; and God will Render you Victorious"
Chapter 9: "Wr s Unavdble"
Chapter 10: "Mr Jefferson is in Reality a Musselman"
Chapter 11: "The Prayer of the Poorest Slave of God"
Chapter 12: "The Runners"
Chapter 13: "Conquest is Close"
Chapter 14: "A Word of any Language"
Chapter 15: "One of Seven of the Arab Dialects"
Chapter 16: "Humanity certainly Pleads Loud"
Chapter 17: "Supposed to be Spys"
Chapter 18: "His Mountain is made a sort of Mecca"
Chapter 19: "A Sect by Myself"
Chapter 20: "Slave of the Most Merciful"
Chapter 21: "Their Eulogy will be Uttered in other Languages"
Chapter 22: Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography