Bilal of Africa
Author | : Husayn Malika Ashtiyani |
Publisher | : Islamic Seminary Publications |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0941724573 |
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Author | : Husayn Malika Ashtiyani |
Publisher | : Islamic Seminary Publications |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0941724573 |
Author | : Edward E. Curtis IV |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2014-10-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1469618125 |
How do people in the African diaspora practice Islam? While the term "Black Muslim" may conjure images of Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, millions of African-descended Muslims around the globe have no connection to the American-based Nation of Islam. The Call of Bilal is a penetrating account of the rich diversity of Islamic religious practice among Africana Muslims worldwide. Covering North Africa and the Middle East, India and Pakistan, Europe, and the Americas, Edward E. Curtis IV reveals a fascinating range of religious activities--from the observance of the five pillars of Islam and the creation of transnational Sufi networks to the veneration of African saints and political struggles for racial justice. Weaving together ethnographic fieldwork and historical perspectives, Curtis shows how Africana Muslims interpret not only their religious identities but also their attachments to the African diaspora. For some, the dispersal of African people across time and space has been understood as a mere physical scattering or perhaps an economic opportunity. For others, it has been a metaphysical and spiritual exile of the soul from its sacred land and eternal home.
Author | : Husạyn Malika Ashtiyạni |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Muslims |
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Author | : Rudolph T. Ware |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1469614316 |
Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa
Author | : Sylviane A. Diouf |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1998-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 081471904X |
Explores the stories of African Muslim slaves in the New World. The author argues that although Islam as brought by the Africans did not outlive the last slaves, "what they wrote on the sands of the plantations is a successful story of strength, resilience, courage, pride, and dignity." She discusses Christian Europeans, African Muslims, the Atlantic slave trade, literacy, revolts, and the Muslim legacy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Michael Muhammad Knight |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2021-11-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0271088532 |
The Ansaru Allah Community, also known as the Nubian Islamic Hebrews (AAC/NIH) and later the Nuwaubians, is a deeply significant and controversial African American Muslim movement. Founded in Brooklyn in the 1960s, it spread through the prolific production and dissemination of literature and lecture tapes and became famous for continuously reinventing its belief system. In this book, Michael Muhammad Knight studies the development of AAC/NIH discourse over a period of thirty years, tracing a surprising consistency behind a facade of serial reinvention. It is popularly believed that the AAC/NIH community abandoned Islam for Black Israelite religion, UFO religion, and Egyptosophy. However, Knight sees coherence in AAC/NIH media, explaining how, in reality, the community taught that the Prophet Muhammad was a Hebrew who adhered to Israelite law; Muhammad’s heavenly ascension took place on a spaceship; and Abraham enlisted the help of a pharaonic regime to genetically engineer pigs as food for white people. Against narratives that treat the AAC/NIH community as a postmodernist deconstruction of religious categories, Knight demonstrates that AAC/NIH discourse is most productively framed within a broader African American metaphysical history in which boundaries between traditions remain quite permeable. Unexpected and engrossing, Metaphysical Africa brings to light points of intersection between communities and traditions often regarded as separate and distinct. In doing so, it helps move the field of religious studies beyond conventional categories of “orthodoxy” and “heterodoxy,” challenging assumptions that inform not only the study of this particular religious community but also the field at large.
Author | : Edward E. Curtis IV |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2009-01-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0807877441 |
Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam came to America's attention in the 1960s and 1970s as a radical separatist African American social and political group. But the movement was also a religious one. Edward E. Curtis IV offers the first comprehensive examination of the rituals, ethics, theologies, and religious narratives of the Nation of Islam, showing how the movement combined elements of Afro-Eurasian Islamic traditions with African American traditions to create a new form of Islamic faith. Considering everything from bean pies to religious cartoons, clothing styles to prayer rituals, Curtis explains how the practice of Islam in the movement included the disciplining and purifying of the black body, the reorientation of African American historical consciousness toward the Muslim world, an engagement with both mainstream Islamic texts and the prophecies of Elijah Muhammad, and the development of a holistic approach to political, religious, and social liberation. Curtis's analysis pushes beyond essentialist ideas about what it means to be Muslim and offers a view of the importance of local processes in identity formation and the appropriation of Islamic traditions.
Author | : Zain Abdullah |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2010-09-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0199718210 |
The changes to U.S. immigration law that were instituted in 1965 have led to an influx of West African immigrants to New York, creating an enclave Harlem residents now call ''Little Africa.'' These immigrants are immediately recognizable as African in their wide-sleeved robes and tasseled hats, but most native-born members of the community are unaware of the crucial role Islam plays in immigrants' lives. Zain Abdullah takes us inside the lives of these new immigrants and shows how they deal with being a double minority in a country where both blacks and Muslims are stigmatized. Dealing with this dual identity, Abdullah discovers, is extraordinarily complex. Some longtime residents embrace these immigrants and see their arrival as an opportunity to reclaim their African heritage, while others see the immigrants as scornful invaders. In turn, African immigrants often take a particularly harsh view of their new neighbors, buying into the worst stereotypes about American-born blacks being lazy and incorrigible. And while there has long been a large Muslim presence in Harlem, and residents often see Islam as a force for social good, African-born Muslims see their Islamic identity disregarded by most of their neighbors. Abdullah weaves together the stories of these African Muslims to paint a fascinating portrait of a community's efforts to carve out space for itself in a new country.
Author | : Wesley Muhammad |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2016-12-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1365525457 |
Bilad al-Sudan is a companion volume to Black Arabia and the African Origin of Islam. A collection of distinct essays written since the publication of Black Arabia, Bilad al-Sudan offers:Further evidence that the Arabs of the first Muslim community of 7th century Arabia were an Africoid people.A correction to the mistaken belief that the pre-Islamic Arabs were white and racist, as seen by their alleged treatment of Bilal, Companion of the Prophet Muhammad.A refutation of recent Muslim attempts to defend the White Supremacist paradigm in Islam.A critical analysis of Afrocentric discourse on Islam.An introduction to a new paradigm: Ma'atic Islam.Dr. Wesley Muhammad is an internationally recognized scholar of Islam and author of several books. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Religious Studies from Morehouse College as well as a Masters Degree and PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Michigan. Dr. Muhammad is currently a scholarly aide to The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.
Author | : Chouki El Hamel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 2014-02-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139620045 |
Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam chronicles the experiences, identity and achievements of enslaved black people in Morocco from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. Chouki El Hamel argues that we cannot rely solely on Islamic ideology as the key to explain social relations and particularly the history of black slavery in the Muslim world, for this viewpoint yields an inaccurate historical record of the people, institutions and social practices of slavery in Northwest Africa. El Hamel focuses on black Moroccans' collective experience beginning with their enslavement to serve as the loyal army of the Sultan Isma'il. By the time the Sultan died in 1727, they had become a political force, making and unmaking rulers well into the nineteenth century. The emphasis on the political history of the black army is augmented by a close examination of the continuity of black Moroccan identity through the musical and cultural practices of the Gnawa.