Interlude - Translator's Note
05/09/24 • 18 min
So far, in this podcast, I have been reading one chapter each week from the history of America by Rania bint Mahdi, which I recently translated from the Arabic. In the past couple of weeks, we’ve read her account of the American War of Independence, which she rather quaintly terms the First Slaveholder Rebellion in Amrika, or the First Insurrection of White Protestant Gentlemen. We’ll resume her history next week with chapter eight, where she recounts the events between the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the Constitutional Convention of 1787. But this week I wanted to pause the narrative and explain how I came to translate this remarkable document into English.
So far, in this podcast, I have been reading one chapter each week from the history of America by Rania bint Mahdi, which I recently translated from the Arabic. In the past couple of weeks, we’ve read her account of the American War of Independence, which she rather quaintly terms the First Slaveholder Rebellion in Amrika, or the First Insurrection of White Protestant Gentlemen. We’ll resume her history next week with chapter eight, where she recounts the events between the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the Constitutional Convention of 1787. But this week I wanted to pause the narrative and explain how I came to translate this remarkable document into English.
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Rania analyse the First Rebellion of White Protestant Gentlemen from a political perspective and attempts to judge the moral case for rebelling against the King of Inglatira from the point of view of Islamic law.
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8. The Disunited States
Rania tells the story of how attacks by Muslim pirates forced the White Protestant Gentlemen to bring the disunited former colonies of Amrika into a single nation governed by a new constitution.
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