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Lincoln University, Pa – The vivid and fascinating story of Omar Ibn Sayyid, a Muslim African slave, will be reenacted in the Ware Center Theater at Lincoln University onTuesday, October 26, 2010 at 7:00 pm.
The one-act monologue by Ahmad Kenya, “The Life and Times of Omar Ibn Sayyid,” depicts the unforgettable life journey of a scholar from Futa Torro (modern-day Senegal) in West Africa in the early 1800s.
Before his captivity, Sayyid made his religious pilgrimage to Mecca. Once enslaved, he was relocated to North Carolina, where he was said to be one of the most educated slaves, as well as the author of the only known slave autobiography written in native language.
Omar Ibn Sayyid was praised as an “African Muslim scholar of Arabic letters, who wrote pages of the Qur’an from memory and even continued to fast for the month of Ramadan while in captivity.”
The performance of “The Life and Times of Omar Ibn Sayyid” is presented by the School of Humanities and funded by the Seiple Foundation.
The event is free and open to the public.
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Lincoln University – founded in 1854 as the nation’s first Historically Black University – combines the best elements of a liberal arts and sciences-based undergraduate core curriculum and selected graduate programs to meet the needs of those living in a highly technological and global society. The University enrolls approximately 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students.
Internationally recognized for preparing learners and producing world-class leaders in their fields, Lincoln has created five academic Centers of Excellence-programs of distinctions. They are: Lincoln-Barnes Visual Arts, Grand Research Educational Awareness and Training (GREAT) for Minority Health, Mass Communications, Teacher Education and Urban Pedagogy and Business and Information Technology.