Meanings of slavery to African muslims: legal and religious Islamic ideias in the Atlantic World (16th and 17th centuries)

In this paper, African Muslim forms to understand and oppose enslavement, slavery, and conversion to Christianity in the Atlantic world are presented. The sources analyzed come from Senegambia (West Africa), the New Kingdom of Granada (nowadays Colombia) and Portugal, between the sixteenth and seven...

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Autor: Mota, Thiago Henrique
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repositorio:Anos 90 (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/87105
Acceso en línea:https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/87105
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Islã
escolas corânicas
oralidade
diáspora africana
resistência
Islã africano
escravidão
Mundo Atlântico
Koran schools. Orality. African diaspora. Resistence.
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Sumario:In this paper, African Muslim forms to understand and oppose enslavement, slavery, and conversion to Christianity in the Atlantic world are presented. The sources analyzed come from Senegambia (West Africa), the New Kingdom of Granada (nowadays Colombia) and Portugal, between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and are discussed in the perspective of Atlantic History, through the establishment of connections among them. Through the realization of the religious formation offered in the Koranic schools in Senegambia and the circulationof Islamic ideas throughout the Atlantic World, it is argued how Islam was a mechanism of resistance to slavery among African Muslims, whether on their continent or in the diaspora across the Atlantic basin.