عنوان

Revelation and Concealment; the Words and World of Omar Ibn Said

شماره

TLpq2240097773

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Revelation and Concealment; the Words and World of Omar Ibn Said

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Babaian, David Gabriel

نام ساير پديدآوران

Wollons, Roberta L.

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Massachusetts Boston

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2019

نام خاص و کميت اثر

80

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

M.A.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of Massachusetts Boston

امتياز متن

2019

متن يادداشت

Revelation and Concealment is an examination of the life and works of Omar ibn Said, an Arabic-literate Senegambian enslaved in the United States from 1807 until his death in 1863. Ibn Said authored several Arabic-language manuscripts during his enslavement that vividly evidence his Muslim faith and literary life, and yet these writings are cryptic because they consist almost entirely of quotations from the Qur'an and the Bible. Ibn Said's voice consists almost entirely of revelation, words from the Muslim and Christian holy books, but this voice represents at the same time a concealment of a first-person narrative self. Ibn Said was likely in his thirties when he was transported to the United States, and he would have lived through dramatic social and political developments during his early life in the Imamate of Futa Toro. By considering educational norms in Futa Toro, as well as the political, military, and commercial forces at play during Ibn Said's years there, Ibn Said's writings can be better understood than they have been in the literature to date. A rigorous contextualization of these writings with Ibn Said's American milieu will supplement this effort. By reading Ibn Said's words against the world out of which they came, Ibn Said can be identified as an individual reacting not to "slavery" writ large but to specific travails and opportunities. Ibn Said passed as a Christian during four decades of his enslavement in the United States, and through his ingenuity he not only preserved a measure of personal dignity through his faith, but he also crystallized that faith in writings that still survive. Ibn Said's legacy speaks not only to the two characters-external and internal, performative and experiential, public and private-that he sustained, but also to how the sustaining of dual selves was a main theme of the society in which he was enslaved.

موضوع مستند نشده

African history

موضوع مستند نشده

American history

موضوع مستند نشده

Islamic Studies

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Babaian, David Gabriel

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Wollons, Roberta L.

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y