America’s Other Muslims

Imam W.D. Mohammed, Islamic Reform, and the Making of American Islam

AvMuhammad Fraser-Rahim

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

America's Other Muslims: Imam W.D. Mohammed, Islamic Reform, and the Making of American Islam explores the oldest and perhaps the most important Muslim community in America, whose story has received little attention in the contemporary context. Muhammad Fraser-Rahim explores American Muslim Revivalist, Imam W.D. Mohammed (1933–2008) and his contribution to the intellectual, spiritual, and philosophical thought of American Muslims as well as the contribution of Islamic thought by indigenous American Muslims. The book details the intersection of the Africana experience and its encounter with race, religion, and Islamic reform. Fraser-Rahim spotlights the emergence of an American school of Islamic thought, which wascreated and established by the son of the former Nation of Islam leader. Imam W.D. Mohammed rejected his father’s teachings and embraced normative Islam on his own terms while balancing classical Islam and his lived experience of Islam in the diaspora. Likewise his interpretations of Islam were not only American – they were also modern and responded to global trends in Islamic thought. His interpretations of Blackness were not only American, but also diasporic and pan-African.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-05-23
Mått:154 x 219 x 12 mm
Vikt:236 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving
Antal sidor:160
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498590211

Utforska kategorier

Islam inom Filosofi och religion
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Muhammad Fraser-Rahim is executive director of Quilliam International and assistant professor at the Citadel.

Recensioner i media

While paying homage to African Islam and its role within the experience of enslavement in America, Fraser-Rahim (The Citadel) focuses on creating a more accurate depiction of the establishment of African American Islam. The title conveys the breadth of this exploration, implicitly covering over a century of acculturation attributable in various ways to both Islam and the vagaries of life for black Americans. The author situates early African American Muslim communities as foundational to the continued experience of African American Muslims in the 21st century. These discussions lead to a preliminary investigation of the community of Imam W.D. Muhammad, arguably the leader of the largest single community of African American Muslims until his death in 2008. Imam Muhammad sits firmly on the black American Islamic continuum that the book builds, which reveals a resilient American Islam being challenged by an immigrant Islam seeking its erasure. This domestic community avoids the chaos of the Muslim world, situating itself as Muslim and American. As research on Imam Muhammad is still in its formative stages, this seminal text relaying his impact on American Islam is a must read. Summing Up: Essential. General readers through faculty.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: African American Islam in ContextChapter 2: Taffakur (“To Think, Ponder, Reflect”): Islam in West Africa and Islamic RevivalismChapter 3: Africanizing Dixie: The Enslaved African Muslim Experience and the Black American Islamic ContinuumChapter 4: Imam W.D. Mohammed, the Patron Saint of American Islam: Personality, Intellectual Teachings, and ReformationChapter 5: Walking with Brother Imam: The Community of WD Mohammed as a Counterweight to Extremism