Moses, Muhammad and Their Laws in Transatlantic Slave History

Anglický jazyk

Moses, Muhammad and Their Laws in Transatlantic Slave History

Vydavateľstvo: Palgrave Macmillan
Rok vydania: 2026
Formát: Hardback
Rozmer: 216 x 153 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9783032103734

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O knihe

This book engages the way Christian, Jewish, Muslim and secular-progressivist actors used Mosaic and Islamic law and ethics in relation to slavery in American and transatlantic history. It traces these themes from early colonial times through the Civil War and beyond. This volume focuses on how various groups marshalled these religious-legal traditions to respond to questions of enslavement, emancipation and abolition in the face of ever-transforming social, religious-cultural, legal and political contexts over more than two centuries. As a result, this study provides a historical window into the history of British and broader European American social-religious relations, including the Bible, Christianity, Judaism and Islam in America, Black African and African American Islam in relation to the legacy of Black African Muslim slaves and slavery, and more.

R. Charles Weller, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of History (Career), Washington State University, USA, and Senior Research Fellow, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan. He has also been a visiting fellow at Yale University (2010-11), a non-residential visiting researcher at Georgetown University’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (2014-2019) and Affiliate Faculty of History (Research) at George Mason University (2021-22). Among a number of works in both English and Kazakh, this present volume, and his most recent book with Palgrave Macmillan, Moses, Muhammad and Nature’s God in Early American Religious-Legal History, 1640-1830: A Global Crosscultural Perspective (2024), are part of a multi-volume study.