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The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa: A Quest for Inter-religious Dialogue Paperback – August 1, 2001

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Thoughtful and challenging, this book argues for a reassessment of the role historically played by Islam in Africa, and offers new hope for in creased mutual understanding between African people of different faiths. Drawing on a wealth of sources, from the colonial period to the most up-to-date scholarship, the author challenges the widely held perception th at, while Christianity oppressed and subjugated the African people, Islam fitted comfortably into the indigenous landscape. Instead, this penetrating account reveals Muslim settlers to be as guilty of enforcing slavery and conversion as those of their more maligned sister tradition. Only with an acknowledgement of the true roles of both faiths in African history, suggests Azumah, can the people of both traditions move themselves and their continent towards a new future of tolerance and self-awareness.
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John Allembillah Azumah is presently Professor of World Christianity & Islam and Director of International Programs at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur. He was formerly based at the Henry Martyn Institute for Reconciliation and Understanding in Hyderabad, India. He is an expert on Islam in colonial Africa, and has published widely on this subject.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oneworld Publications (August 1, 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1851682732
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1851682737
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 1 x 8.85 inches
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Citizen Four
5.0 out of 5 stars Be prepared to open up your mind
Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2017
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Before reading this book, I thought that I was reasonably well-informed on the history of Islam, and I was wrong. The immense scale of the horror inflicted on black Africans by Islamic slavery over 1400 years is stunning, and make no mistake, the practice continues today.

I found this book while looking for an English translation of Tidiane N'Diaye's Le génocide voilé. He gave a interesting interview to the French media recently in which he contrasted the 100 million living descendants of black African slaves in the New World to the few scattered villages of survivors in the Islamic world. As you come to understand the reasons why, the horrors unfold.

John Alembillah Azumah provides an excellent, meticulously footnoted treatment of this incredible subject, and does so from the prospective of one seeking inter-faith dialog. This is not a product of academia, but of religious scholarship. Research in this area and publication of this material would be almost inconceivable in an academic institution under the strictures of pro-Islam political correctness.

That could be the most shocking part of this book. Not the material itself, which is as horrible as history can be, but the willingness of Western apologists for Islam to ignore entirely that jihad against the infidel for the purpose of murder, rape, enslavement, and subjugation is in fact a core tenet of Islam.
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Auguste Isaac
5.0 out of 5 stars Refreshing and Enlightening
Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2009
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This is a well written, deeply researched and balanced presentation of the less than benign role of Islam in Africa and the devastating Muslim slave trade, which overwhelms the Alantic slave trade in duration, extent and brutality. It carefully distinguishes the context, motivations, and impact of pre-Islamic slavery in Africa from the more economically, politically and religiously motivated and sanctioned fourteen centuries of Muslim slavery in Africa. It reviews centuries of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish works back to even medieval times which demonize blacks as "...lazy, stupid, evil-smelling and lecherous slaves...", or "untruthful, vicious, sexually unbridled, ugly and distorted...", or being "nothing more or less than the symbol of wickedness and barbarism...", or which claim that "the Negro does not differ from an animal in anything except his hands have been lifted from the earth", and thus justifiably questions if `the extent to which racial prejudice in Western Europe against blacks could have Muslim influences, since the former owes much of its medieval literature and philosophical tradition to Muslims'.

Especially sobering is the observation that by '...placing blacks under a mythological curse, stereotyping and stigmatizing them on account of the content of their belief and color of their skin, Muslims of all races waged war against and raided Africans, killing millions and reducing others to slaver of the last 14 centuries.'

It is noted that while both the non-Muslim and Muslim worlds must understand these ugly facts, Muslims in particular must also accept the Muslim share of responsibility for the consequent centuries of untold pain and suffering heaped on Africans by the introduction of a foreign religion and in the name of the God of that religion, if there is to be constructive dialogue between the two.

This is powerful read for anyone interested in more than an apologia for Islam in Africa.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Complete History of slavery in Africa
Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2020
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Buy this book to keep from buying all the books that are in the footnotes. John Azumah did the searching that non-Moslem scholars were too lazy to do. Details such as chopping off a leg and letting the slave bleed to death. This was done as an example to the rest of the caravan. Bottom line is similar to 'The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise': Moslem scholars have been allowed to teach their own version of History to the non-Moslem World.
Moslem slave trade began centuries before Western slavery and carried on after Western slavery ended. This book doesn't allow History to be covered up. I think this is the book I read that told when Africans were first marched to Egypt. To this day black doctors claim they're Egyptian and not Black.
The remainder of the book pines for 'Inter-religious dialogue'. Mr. Azumah holds out hope.
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D. Njoku
5.0 out of 5 stars John Alembillah Azumah has produced another King Leopold's Ghost. This is criminally reprehensible.
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2010
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To think that this has been going on for more than the last fourteen hundred years is staggering. To merely think of only the number of little African boys that have been killed and mutilated in the name of these outrageously organised criminals, masquerading under the guise of a religion, stuns credibility. A "religion" that encourages its adherents to exterminate others that do not share its beliefs. Millions of innocent little African boys must have lost their lives to these hideous practices. And the little African girls that have been haremised by this "religion". This is certainly the equivalent of "King Leopold's Ghost".

"A quest for inter-religious dialogue?" Thorough Nonsense!!! More a case for world expose`, and most certainly one for bringing these criminals before an international forum for justice. This is unmitigated criminality. The contents of this book must be given all the publicity it merits. The highest credit to John Alembillah Azumah for exposing these activities to the world's attention in writing this book.
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Stephen Peele
5.0 out of 5 stars The Truth about Islam
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2011
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Lots of books are being written to acquaint westerners with the realities of Islam. That will put us in a better position to respond and to understand. In particular there are many myths regarding whether Islam is "for" black people. The truth is that Islam perhaps more than the western cultures had a devastating effect on Africa and still does today. Before you embrace Islam as a solution to the problems of racism and slavery, understand how Islam contributed to the enslavement of Africans.
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william hughes
5.0 out of 5 stars Red pill alert!!!!
Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2019
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Not an easy read, but worth the time. You won’t believe some of the things written in this book.
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dawid
4.0 out of 5 stars legacy of arab islam in africa
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2013
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Interesting but not necessarily an "easy read". The title gives a good indication of the author's writing style throughout the book. Very detailed history of Islam and its infiltration into Africa, its relationship to Christianity's spread and to the indigenous peoples.
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L. Mukwakwami
5.0 out of 5 stars the level of Arab enslaving black people
Reviewed in Australia on August 24, 2018
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5.0 out of 5 stars An essential read, well researched and sourced. It exposes what many in the Islamic world have been trying to bury for centuries
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 24, 2015
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Excellent, well sourced and researched (provides references and sources for all claims) assessment of Islam in Africa.

This book is an essential for everyone to read, written by a PhD graduate and Professor of world Islam, it provides objective criticism of Islam's role in Africa backed up all throughout the book with sources.

It's interesting to see how much the Islamic world tried to bury it's crimes and has no interest in teaching its youth on the crimes of it's past. A sharp contrast compared to the western schooling system where we are told purely about the European/American (Trans-Atlantic) slave trade and our own nations crimes of past.

The horrific truth about the Arab-Islam slave trade should be taught in all Western Schools to give a balanced view on slavery in Africa. We are letting down our children by simply teaching them one-sided view on a slave trade which we abolished a long time ago compared to the IIslamic slave trade which still continues today.

Well worth buying and reading.
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Hanne Lyng
5.0 out of 5 stars The best hidden secret in history?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 19, 2016
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Having been raised in a culture where self scrutiny along with condemnation of historical faults has been part of my upbringing and education - I am a white European, with an American citizenship, it is quite baffling to all of a sudden discover that history really does have surprises in store for all of us.
Having been reminded more than once of my "slave owner ancestry", by way of my genes and the colur of my skin alone, it makes me proud all of a sudden, that "we", the courageous ones who dared have a critical look at what our cultures onces did, - and made an attempt to learn a better way. It must have taken courage to let out all that shame, - and now, it is the choice of other cultures and continents, to see if they can or will try the same.
An informative book.
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ManFriday
5.0 out of 5 stars The history of Islam's spread in (primarily West) Africa. A great unknown story, well told.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 3, 2018
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Very well argued, sourced and balanced in its approach. This is a great book.
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John Gulliver
5.0 out of 5 stars A modern narrative this is unimpeachable
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 3, 2019
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As a history this is top flight.
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