A Muslim American slave : the life of Omar Ibn Said / translated from the Arabic, edited, and with an introduction by Ala Alryyes.

Incluye bibliografía.

_ Introduction : ´Arabic work,´ Islam, and American literature / Ala Alryyes -- The life of Omar Ibn Said, written by himself / translated by Ala Alryyes -- Autobiography of Omar Ibn Said, slave in North Carolina, 1831 / translated by Isaac Bird ; with an introduction and notes by J. Franklin Jameson -- Muslims in early America / Michael A. Gomez -- Contemporary contexts for Omar´s Life and life / Allan D. Austin -- The United States and Barbary Coast slavery / Robert J. Allison -- ´God does not allow kings to enslave their people´ : Islamic reformists and the transatlantic slave trade / Sylviane A. Diouf -- Representing the West in the Arabic language: the slave narrative of Omar Ibn Said / Ghada Osman, Camille F. Forbes -- Appendix 1: Omar´s earliest known manuscript (1819) / Translated by John Hunwick -- Appendix 2 : Letter from Reverend Isaac Bird, of Hartford, Connecticut, to Theodore Dwight, of Brooklyn, New York (April 1, 1862) -- Appendix 3 : ´Uncle Moreau,´ from North Carolina University Magazine (September 1854) -- Appendix 4 : Ralph Gurley´s ´Secretary´s Report,´ from African Repository and Colonial Journal (July 1837).

English translations on pages facing facsim. pages of Arabic text.