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Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library
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New Light on the Arabic Writings of Omar Ibn Said (Profs. Carl Ernst and Mbaye Lo)
Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesResearch Forum: “New light on the Arabic writings of Omar ibn Said” A presentation by Carl Ernst and Mbaye Lo The enslaved African Muslim scholar Omar ibn Said, who wrote an autobiography in Arabic in 1831 while enslaved in Bladen County NC, has attracted attention as a striking example of the presence of Muslims in […]