R. Charles Weller

Moses, Muhammad and Their Laws in Transatlantic Slave History

From West African Captivity to the American Cotton Kingdom, 1440-1830

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing AG / Springer-Verlag GmbH
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 89526080
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783032103734
• ISBN-10: 3032103738
• Artikelnr.: 75532764

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: Historiographical Backgrounds, Contexts and Frameworks.
Part I: Laying the Foundations.
2 The Early Historical and Theological Origins and Development of Mosaic and Islamic Law in West African, Transatlantic and American Enslavement History.
3 Mosaic Law in the Transition from Indentured Servitude to Racialized Lifelong Hereditary Bondage for Black Africans, 1600
1710.
Part II: Mosaic and Islamic Slave Law Before and After the American Revolution.
4 The Rise & Fall of Moses the Liberator Before and After the American Revolution, 1710
1830.
5 Moses, Muhammad and Slavery among Jews and Muslims in Colonial and Early Independent America, 1654
1830.
6 Moses, Muhammad and Slavery in the Thought & Writings of Key American Founders, 1750
1830.
7 Concluding Reflections and Contributions of the Study.