{"title":"Resisting Islamophobia via [Redacted] Prayers in the Handwritten Autobiographies of ʿUmar ibn Sayyid and Mohamedou Ould Slahi","authors":"Zeinab Mcheimech","doi":"10.5325/JAFRIRELI.7.1.0163","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The current political climate in the United States lends fresh urgency to the task of remembering the history of enslaved Africans in the Americas, a history that has become vital for understanding today's Islamophobia. To begin this task, this article examines the invocation of the African Muslim slave in Mohamedou Ould Slahi's memoir, Guantánamo Diary, alongside ʿUmar ibn Sayyid's slave autobiography, and expands readings of Islamic prayer in carceral spaces.","PeriodicalId":41877,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Africana Religions","volume":"7 1","pages":"163 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2019-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Africana Religions","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JAFRIRELI.7.1.0163","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"RELIGION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:The current political climate in the United States lends fresh urgency to the task of remembering the history of enslaved Africans in the Americas, a history that has become vital for understanding today's Islamophobia. To begin this task, this article examines the invocation of the African Muslim slave in Mohamedou Ould Slahi's memoir, Guantánamo Diary, alongside ʿUmar ibn Sayyid's slave autobiography, and expands readings of Islamic prayer in carceral spaces.
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The Journal of Africana Religions publishes critical scholarship on Africana religions, including the religious traditions of African and African Diasporic peoples as well as religious traditions influenced by the diverse cultural heritage of Africa. An interdisciplinary journal encompassing history, anthropology, Africana studies, gender studies, ethnic studies, religious studies, and other allied disciplines, the Journal of Africana Religions embraces a variety of humanistic and social scientific methodologies in understanding the social, political, and cultural meanings and functions of Africana religions.
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