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Bahia Muslim Slaves Rebellion; Rebellion of the Males, Brazil 1835

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Some of the amulets located by the police after the end of the revolution. Professor Joao José Reis provided me with more than 60 documents by email. Today they can be found in the Archive of Bahía State (see Figs. 1, 2, and 3).

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Surah Al-Qadr of Holy Quran, as the date of 24 of January 1835 coincided with the 27 night of Ramadan (Islamic calendar) called laylat al Qadr or night of Destiny. It is the night when the first verses of Quran were revealed to the Prophet Muhammad. Revolution was organized that night on purpose

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Illegible Arabic letters of this amulets founded in houses of the revolution’s leaders. We can see characters in black and red with some numbers. Many of these amulets could not be deciphered by researchers.

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The same sentence (Illegible) repeated for three times. Beginning with (b-ismi-llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīmi بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم “In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful” which is the opening formula of all the Quran’s surah. On the little square we can read: Ya Allah, Ya Muhammad (Oh Allah!, Oh Muhammad!)

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Kettani, M. (2016). Bahia Muslim Slaves Rebellion; Rebellion of the Males, Brazil 1835. In: Gooren, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08956-0_282-1

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