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Document Type : Article In Journal 
Document Title :
Characteristics of Arabic Slave Narratives
خصائص السرد القصصي للرقيق العربية
 
Subject : American literature 
Document Language : English 
Abstract : Characteristics of Arabic Slave Narratives Muslim slaves are those Africans who came from the Central and Western Coast of Africa, including the Southern and Western Sahara. African Muslims turned to Christianity whereas Muslim slaves turned to Islam. This paper examines the slave's cultural conceptions, his religion and the impact of Islamic culture, as demonstrated in all aspects of his life, on the African Muslim slave in antebellum America. During his bondages, the Muslim slave continued to observe the customs of Islam and was devoted to live according to Shari' even in the most difficult condition, suffering and pain. In Arabic slave narratives, the Muslim slave, accepting all happenings to him as evidence of God's benevolence, rejected the slaveholder's religion and invoked the presence of Allah's[God's] controlling hand in even the most insignificant circumstance 
ISSN : 1319-0989 
Journal Name : Arts and Humanities Journal 
Volume : 18 
Issue Number : 2 
Publishing Year : 1423 AH
2003 AD 
Article Type : Article 
Added Date : Wednesday, January 12, 2011 

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عبدالحافظ علي خريساتKhrisat, Abdulhafeth AliResearcherDoctorateabdulhafeth@hotmail.com

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