The autobiography and other writings5/26/2023 In 1807, he was captured during a military conflict, enslaved and taken across the Atlantic Ocean to the United States. He was an Islamic scholar and a Fula who spent 25 years of his life studying with prominent Muslim scholars, learning a range of subjects including mathematics, astronomy, business, and theology. Omar ibn Said was born to a wealthy family in what would in a few years become the Imamate of Futa Toro, an Islamic theocratic state located along the Middle Senegal River in West Africa. There, while enslaved for the remainder of his life, he wrote a series of Arabic-language works on history and theology, including a short autobiography. 1770–1864) was a Fula Islamic scholar from Futa Toro in West Africa (present-day Senegal), who was enslaved and transported to the United States in 1807. Omar ibn Said ( Arabic: عمر بن سعيد, romanized: ʿUmar bin Saeed or Omar ben Saeed c. Islamic scholar, author of slave narratives
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