Omar ibn Said
Library of Congress to highlight Muslim slave and scholar with $2.5 million grant
By Adelle M. Banks — February 14, 2023
(RNS) — The project, which will aid other library programs, is one of 16 to receive grants from the Lilly Endowment’s Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative.
New research reconsiders writings of a Muslim slave and scholar
By Yonat Shimron — February 7, 2020
(RNS) — Multiple legends have grown up around Said since his death in 1864. Now two North Carolina university professors are translating and transcribing the scholar's writings and shedding new light on what he knew.
Rare autobiography of Muslim slave goes online via Library of Congress
By Aysha Khan — January 17, 2019
(RNS) – The only known existing autobiography of a slave written in Arabic in America is now freely available to researchers and the public online.
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