Islam And Blackness
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Islam And Blackness
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Author : Jonathan A.C. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-11-03
Islam And Blackness written by Jonathan A.C. Brown and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-03 with Religion categories.
It is commonly claimed that Islam is antiblack, even inherently bent on enslaving Black Africans. Western and African critics alike have contended that antiblack racism is in the faith’s very scriptural foundations and its traditions of law, spirituality, and theology. But what is the basis for this accusation? Bestselling scholar Jonathan A.C. Brown examines Islamic scripture, law, Sufism, and history to comprehensively interrogate this claim and determine how and why it emerged. Locating its origins in conservative politics, modern Afrocentrism, and the old trope of Barbary enslavement, he explains how antiblackness arose in the Islamic world and became entangled with normative tradition. From the imagery of ‘blackened faces’ in the Quran to Shariah assessments of Black women as ‘undesirable’ and the assertion that Islam and Muslims are foreign to Africa, this work provides an in-depth study of the controversial knot that is Islam and Blackness, and identifies authoritative voices in Islam’s past that are crucial for combatting antiblack racism today.
Islam In Black America
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Author : Edward E. Curtis IV
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Islam In Black America written by Edward E. Curtis IV and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Religion categories.
Many of the most prominent figures in African-American Islam have been dismissed as Muslim heretics and cultists. Focusing on the works of five of these notable figures—Edward W. Blyden, Noble Drew Ali, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Wallace D. Muhammad—author Edward E. Curtis IV examines the origin and development of modern African-American Islamic thought. Curtis notes that intellectual tensions in African-American Islam parallel those of Islam throughout its history—most notably, whether Islam is a religion for a particular group of people or whether it is a religion for all people. In the African-American context, such tensions reflect the struggle for black liberation and the continuing reconstruction of black identity. Ultimately, Curtis argues, the interplay of particular and universal interpretations of the faith can allow African-American Islam a vision that embraces both a specific group of people and all people.
Islam Black Nationalism And Slavery
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Author : Adib Rashad
language : en
Publisher: Writers Inc. International
Release Date : 1995
Islam Black Nationalism And Slavery written by Adib Rashad and has been published by Writers Inc. International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Black Muslims categories.
Islam And The Blackamerican
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Author : Sherman A. Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2005-04-14
Islam And The Blackamerican written by Sherman A. Jackson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-14 with Religion categories.
Sherman Jackson offers a trenchant examination of the career of Islam among the blacks of America. Jackson notes that no one has offered a convincing explanation of why Islam spread among Blackamericans (a coinage he explains and defends) but not among white Americans or Hispanics. The assumption has been that there is an African connection. In fact, Jackson shows, none of the distinctive features of African Islam appear in the proto-Islamic, black nationalist movements of the early 20th century. Instead, he argues, Islam owes its momentum to the distinctively American phenomenon of "Black Religion," a God-centered holy protest against anti-black racism. Islam in Black America begins as part of a communal search for tools with which to combat racism and redefine American blackness. The 1965 repeal of the National Origins Quota System led to a massive influx of foreign Muslims, who soon greatly outnumbered the blacks whom they found here practicing an indigenous form of Islam. Immigrant Muslims would come to exercise a virtual monopoly over the definition of a properly constituted Islamic life in America. For these Muslims, the nemesis was not white supremacy, but "the West." In their eyes, the West was not a racial, but a religious and civilizational threat. American blacks soon learned that opposition to the West and opposition to white supremacy were not synonymous. Indeed, says Jackson, one cannot be anti-Western without also being on some level anti-Blackamerican. Like the Black Christians of an earlier era struggling to find their voice in the context of Western Christianity, Black Muslims now began to strive to find their black, American voice in the context of the super-tradition of historical Islam. Jackson argues that Muslim tradition itself contains the resources to reconcile blackness, American-ness, and adherence to Islam. It is essential, he contends, to preserve within Islam the legitimate aspects of Black Religion, in order to avoid what Stephen Carter calls the domestication of religion, whereby religion is rendered incapable of resisting the state and the dominant culture. At the same time, Jackson says, it is essential for Blackamerican Muslims to reject an exclusive focus on the public square and the secular goal of subverting white supremacy (and Arab/immigrant supremacy) and to develop a tradition of personal piety and spirituality attuned to distinctive Blackamerican needs and idiosyncrasies.
Islam In The African American Experience
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Author : Richard Brent Turner
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2003
Islam In The African American Experience written by Richard Brent Turner and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with African Americans categories.
The involvement of African Americans with Islam reaches back to the earliest days of the African presence in North America. This book explores these roots in the Middle East, West Africa and antebellum America.
Blackness And Islam
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Author : Dawud Walid
language : en
Publisher: Algorithm
Release Date : 2021
Blackness And Islam written by Dawud Walid and has been published by Algorithm this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Muslims, Black categories.
Muslims who are Black in the West, in particular, have found that while Islam may not discriminate based on race, many Muslims do. To make matters worse, some of those Muslims will delve into the Islamic tradition to justify their biases and bigotries, seeing no contradiction between their racism and the Islamic ideals. This work seeks to clarify and debunk some traditions which support their racist positions and presents biographies of early Muslims who were Black. The biographies of these great Muslim personalities shows us how Blackness was a normal part of life for early Muslims, in sharp contradistinction to modern prejudices against Black folks found in some Muslim communities.
Islam And The Problem Of Black Suffering
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Author : Sherman A. Jackson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Islam And The Problem Of Black Suffering written by Sherman A. Jackson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Religion categories.
In his controversial 1973 book, Is God a White Racist?, William R. Jones sharply criticized black theologians for their agnostic approach to black suffering, noting that the doctrine of an ominibenevolent God poses very significant problems for a perennially oppressed community. He proposed a "humanocentric theism" which denies God's sovereignty over human history and imputes autonomous agency to humans. By rendering humans alone responsible for moral evil, Jones's theology freed blacks to revolt against the evil of oppression without revolting against God. Sherman Jackson now places Jones's argument in conversation with the classical schools of Islamic theology. The problem confronting the black community is not simply proving that God exists, says Jackson. The problem, rather, is establishing that God cares. No religious expression that fails to tackle the problem of black suffering can hope to enjoy a durable tenure in the black community. For the Muslim, therefore, it is essential to find a Quranic/Islamic grounding for the protest-oriented agenda of black religion. That is the task Jackson undertakes in this pathbreaking work. Jackson's previous book, Islam and the Blackamerican (OUP 2006) laid the groundwork for this ambitious project. Its sequel, Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering, solidifies Jackson's reputation as the foremost theologian of the black American Islamic movement.
Centering Black Narrative
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Author : Ahmad Mubarak
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-07-16
Centering Black Narrative written by Ahmad Mubarak and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-16 with categories.
"Blackness" is a term which has been understood differently across locations and eras. As a sequel to Centering Black Narrative: Black Muslim Nobles Among the Early Pious Muslims, the coauthors of this book continue to posit "Blackness" as a historical reality within the family and descendants of Prophet Muhammad. The coauthors discuss the spiritual rank of this special family and its descendants within normative Islam while also building upon their previous work in hopes of moving Muslims in the West beyond Eurocentric racial classifications when reading and understanding Islamic history and personalities who have been described within.
Illuminating The Blackness
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Author : Habeeb Akande
language : en
Publisher: Rabaah Publishers
Release Date : 2016-05-01
Illuminating The Blackness written by Habeeb Akande and has been published by Rabaah Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-01 with History categories.
Illuminating the Blackness presents the history of Brazil's race relations and African Muslim heritage. The book is divided into two parts. Part I explores the issue of race, anti-black racism, white supremacy, colourism, black beauty and affirmative action in contemporary Brazil. Part II examines the reports of African Muslims' travels to Brazil before the Portuguese colonisers, the slave revolts in Bahia and the West African Muslim communities in nineteenth century Brazil. The author explores the black consciousness movement in Brazil and examines the reasons behind the growing conversion to Islam amongst Brazilians, particularly those of African descent. The author also shares his insights into the complexities of race in Brazil and draws comparisons with the racial histories of the pre-modern Muslim world including a comparative analysis of the East African Zanj slave rebellions in ninth century Baghdad with the West African Hausa and Yoruba slave rebellions in nineteenth century Bahia.
Islam And The Black Experience African American History Reconsidered
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Author : Michael Nash
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-08-30
Islam And The Black Experience African American History Reconsidered written by Michael Nash and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-30 with Social Science categories.
Examines a facet of African history and blackness that often goes unexamined: a substantial portion of its roots lie in Islam. This publication analyzes the effect of Islamic blackness upon African America, from slavery to pop culture and its evolution in between.