Wolof and Mandinga Muslims in the early Atlantic World: African background, missionary disputes, and social expansion of Islam before the Fulajihads

What Is Legal History of Latin American Law in a Global Perspective?

“…Since the seventeenth century, the perseverance of their beliefs in Cartagena de Indias posed constant challenges to the projects of Catholic missionaries. 195 Apart from being a religion that shapes cultural manifestations and modes of resistance, Islam is also a legal system. Therefore, the presence of such individuals in Latin America raises the question of how "memories" of Islamic legal systems, 196 that is, a shared legal background, might have impacted these enslaved Muslims and their descendants' patterns of normative behavior and thus formed part of the history of law in the Americas.…”