Download or read book Islam and the Search for African American Nationhood written by Dennis Walker and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nation of Islam and its successors after 1975 : from millenarian protest to transcontinental relationships -- African Islam in the evolution of the African-American nation : formation and development of America's multi-ethnic society -- The difficult rebirth of Islam among African-Americans, 1900-1950 -- The heyday of Elijah : his articulation of ideology in the 1960s and 1970s -- Elijah Muhammad's Muslims in a changing America -- The rise of Farrakhan in Elijah's Noi -- Farrakhan's changing post-1990 nation of Islam.
Download or read book A History of the Nation of Islam written by Dawn-Marie Gibson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fascinating, unparalleled look at the Nation of Islam, including its history, the complexity of its views towards orthodox Muslims, women, and other minorities, and the trajectory of the group after the 1995 Million Man March. The release of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's extensive archive of surveillance files, interviews, and firsthand accounts has made it possible to reveal the truth behind the myths and misperceptions about the Nation of Islam. This comprehensive resource catalogues the times, places, and people that shaped the philosophies from its formative years through to its present incarnation. The definitive source on the subject, A History of The Nation of Islam: Race, Islam, and the Quest for Freedom draws on over a dozen interviews, along with archival and rarely-used sources. The book departs from the usual "Malcolm X-centric" treatment of the subject, and instead examines the early leadership of Fard Muhammad, challenges conventional views on Malcolm X, and explores the present day internal politics of the movement post Louis Farrakhan's retirement.
Download or read book Islam Black Nationalism and Slavery written by Adib Rashad and published by Writers Inc. International. This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Islam in the African American Experience written by Richard Brent Turner and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Islam in Black America written by Edward E. Curtis IV and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Lost found Nation of Islam in America written by Clifton E. Marsh and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds light on The Nation of Islam and Minister Louis Farrakhan, from the ideological splits in the Nation of Islam during the 1970s, to the growth and expanding influence in the 1990s.
Download or read book Africana Islamic Studies written by James L. Conyers and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africana Islamic Studies highlights the diverse contributions that African Americans have made to the formation of Islam in the United States. It specifically focuses on the Nation of Islam and its patriarch Elijah Muhammad with regards to the African American Islamic experience. Contributors explore topics such as gender, education, politics, and sociology from the African American perspective on Islam. This volume offers a unique view of the longstanding Islamic discourse in the United States and its impact on the American cultural landscape.
Download or read book The Promise of Patriarchy written by Ula Yvette Taylor and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a provider and a protector among the organization's men, who were fiercely committed to these masculine roles. Black women's experience in the NOI, however, has largely remained on the periphery of scholarship. Here, Ula Taylor documents their struggle to escape the devaluation of black womanhood while also clinging to the empowering promises of patriarchy. Taylor shows how, despite being relegated to a lifestyle that did not encourage working outside of the home, NOI women found freedom in being able to bypass the degrading experiences connected to labor performed largely by working-class black women and in raising and educating their children in racially affirming environments. Telling the stories of women like Clara Poole (wife of Elijah Muhammad) and Burnsteen Sharrieff (secretary to W. D. Fard, founder of the Allah Temple of Islam), Taylor offers a compelling narrative that explains how their decision to join a homegrown, male-controlled Islamic movement was a complicated act of self-preservation and self-love in Jim Crow America.
Download or read book History of the Nation of Islam written by Elijah Muhammad and published by Elijah Muhammad Books. This book was released on 2008-11-06 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an interview of Elijah Muhammad explaining his initial encounter with his teacher, Master Fard Muhammad and how his messengership came about. The subjects discussed are Master Fard Muhammad's whereabouts, the races and what makes a devil and satan. He answers questions dealing the concept of divine and how ideas are perfected. More basic subjects include Malcolm X, Noble Drew Ali, C. Eric Lincoln, Udom, and a comprehensive range of information.
Download or read book Islam and the Blackamerican written by Sherman A. Jackson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-14 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dismissing the idea that an 'African connection' explains the spread of Islam amongst African Americans, Sherman Jackson explores the complex factors that have given rise to the Black Muslim movement & finds answers in both African American religious traditions & the doctrines of the faith.
Download or read book The Nation of Islam written by Steven Tsoukalas and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-05-16 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nation of Islam promises African Americans a new identity and purpose. But can it deliver? In this intriguing study Steven Tsoukalas helps us understand the struggle, history, and theology behind black nationalism, so that we may respond with compassion and truth.
Download or read book Black Nationalism written by E. U. Essien-Udom and published by [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first studies of the organization, life and meaning of the Nation of Islam and, by extension, all Black Nationalist movements, this classic work dispels the still common conception that the movement functioned primarily for political purposes. By observing the daily life of its members, Essien-Udom demonstrates that the Nation of Islam served primarily as a means for poor urban blacks to attain a national identity, a sense of ethnic consciousness, and empowerment in a society that denied them these privileges. Black Nationalism continues to hold profound implications for our understanding of the appeal of Black Nationalism as an ideology and a political force. "An excellent standard treatment of black nationalist belief and practice in the 50's."—Michael Eric Dyson, New York Times Book Review "This is an absorbing exercise in first class reporting. . . . In the light of his scrupulous fairness, the book is another illustration of how the press prejudges a story. And most provocatively, Essien-Udom has emphasized that even after the current campaigns for wide-scale integration are won, there will be an even wider chasm between the 'liberated' Negro middle class and the rootless Negro poor."—Nat Hentoff,Commonweal
Download or read book In the Name of Elijah Muhammad written by Mattias Gardell and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-26 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Name of Elijah Muhammad tells the story of the Nation of Islam—its rise in northern inner-city ghettos during the Great Depression through its decline following the death of Elijah Muhammad in 1975 to its rejuvenation under the leadership of Louis Farrakhan. Mattias Gardell sets this story within the context of African American social history, the legacy of black nationalism, and the long but hidden Islamic presence in North America. He presents with insight and balance a detailed view of one of the most controversial yet least explored organizations in the United States—and its current leader. Beginning with Master Farad Muhammad, believed to be God in Person, Gardell examines the origins of the Nation. His research on the period of Elijah Muhammad’s long leadership draws on previously unreleased FBI files that reveal a clear picture of the bureau’s attempts to neutralize the Nation of Islam. In addition, they shed new light on the circumstances surrounding the murder of Malcolm X. With the main part of the book focused on the fortunes of the Nation after Elijah Muhammad’s death, Gardell then turns to the figure of Minister Farrakhan. From his emergence as the dominant voice of the radical black Islamic community to his leadership of the Million Man March, Farrakhan has often been portrayed as a demagogue, bigot, racist, and anti-Semite. Gardell balances the media’s view of the Nation and Farrakhan with the Nation’s own views and with the perspectives of the black community in which the organization actively works. His investigation, based on field research, taped lectures, and interviews, leads to the fullest account yet of the Nation of Islam’s ideology and theology, and its complicated relations with mainstream Islam, the black church, the Jewish community, extremist white nationalists, and the urban culture of black American youth, particularly the hip-hop movement and gangs.
Download or read book New Perspectives on the Nation of Islam written by Dawn-Marie Gibson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Perspectives on the Nation of Islam contributes to the ongoing dialogue about the nature and influence of the Nation of Islam (NOI), bringing fresh insights to areas that have previously been overlooked in the scholarship of Elijah Muhammad’s NOI, the Imam W.D. Mohammed community and Louis Farrakhan’s Resurrected NOI. Bringing together contributions that explore the formation, practices, and influence of the NOI, this volume problematizes the history of the movement, its theology, and relationships with other religious movements. Contributors offer a range of diverse perspectives, making connections between the ideology of the NOI and gender, dietary restrictions and foodways, the internationalization of the movement, and the civil rights movement. This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of current scholarship on the Nation of Islam, and will be relevant to scholars of American religion and history, Islamic studies, and African American Studies.
Download or read book Islam Black Nationalism and Slavery written by Mario a S Ahmad and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of Mr. Adib Rashad (James Miller) is a documentation of the encounter between Islam and the Black peoples of North America. Working on the assumption that Islam is not a stranger to African-Americans because it was known to many of their ancestors in Africa, Mr. Rashad traces the history of the Black American encounter with Islam from the time of slavery to the present. In the course of his investigation and analysis, he identifies the major landmarks in this history. He not only tells us about the early Muslim slaves of the antebellum period, but also discusses the rise of modern Islam in the cities of America. He shows how colorful historical characters such as Marcus Garvey, Noble Drew Ali and Farad Muhammad featured in the drama.Coming to the present period, Mr. Rashad analyzes the contemporary situation and the various groups that are now claiming to be the true inheritors and custodians of the Muslim faith in America. He contends that Black Nationalism in North America has been affected by the Islamic Movement and vice versa. He concludes that Islam is now a part of the American social landscape and Muslims must be taken for what they really are. They are part of the United States, and their religion is seriously adhered to by almost all members.Beginning with the origins of Islam in Arabia and continuing to the African empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhai, Mr. Rashad examines the influence the religion had on the peoples of that continent and the impact of slavery on African Muslims brought to the Americas. He offers several biographical sketches of pre-Civil War Muslim slaves and how Islam was reintroduced into the United States at the turn of the century. Mr. Rashad describes the rise of Islamic and Black Power movements in urban areas of the U.S. and presents vivid portraits of such powerful historical figures as Marcus Garvey, Drew Ali, Elijah Muhammad, and Malcolm X. The book also includes biographical profiles of current leaders such as Minister Louis Farrakhan, Imam Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown), Imam W.D. Mohammed, and many others who have contributed to the present African-American Islamic consciousness. The chapters on Elijah Muhammad and Louis Farrakhan are particularly revealing, shedding much light on the origins and teachings of the Nation of Islam.
Download or read book The Search for Neofascism written by A. James Gregor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Download or read book In Search of The Black Seed written by Kashif Abdul-Karim and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the development of Islam among the African American Community. A strong effort is made to discuss the cultural and religious conflicts and similarities among indigenous and immigrants Muslims in America.This book also explores The natural progression of Islam in America and how the path was interrupted. This book also explores the psychological challenges Muslim Americans experience as a minority group in America.
