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A Black Man's Journey in America: Glimpses of Islam, Conversations and Travels

By: Muhammad Ali Salaam,Ma Salaam

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A Black Man's Journey in America: Glimpses of Islam, Conversations and Travels

By: Muhammad Ali Salaam,Ma Salaam

One of the most progressive movements for Freedom, Justice and Equality in African American history has been Islam. Transported into America among the very first slaves, it has survived for four centuries under the most difficult of circumstances. Yet, it has produced some of the most influential leaders among Black Americans including Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, Imam Warithu Deen Mohammed, Louis Farrakhan and many others. In A Black Mans Journey in America: Glimpses of Islam, Conversations and Travels, I have placed my familys history within the context of that Islamic heritage. Further, I have attempted to unravel the method through which African American Muslims were so often forced to embrace as a means of survival.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462874010

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Journey to the End of Islam

By: Michael Muhammad Knight

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Journey to the End of Islam

By: Michael Muhammad Knight

In Journey to the End of Islam, Michael Muhammad Knight — whose work has led to him being hailed as both the Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson of American Islam — wanders through Muslim countries, navigating between conflicting visions of his religion. Visiting holy sites in Pakistan, Syria, Egypt, and Ethiopia, Knight engages both the puritanical Islam promoted by Saudi globalization and the heretical strands of popular folk Islam: shrines, magic, music, and drugs. The conflict of “global” and “local” Islam speaks to Knight’s own experience approaching the Islamic world as a uniquely American Muslim with his own sources: the modern mythologies of the Nation of Islam and Five Percenters, as well as the arguments of Progressive Muslim thinkers for feminism and reform. Knight’s travels conclude at Islam’s spiritual center, the holy city of Mecca, where he performs the hajj required of every Muslim. During the rites of pilgrimage, he watches as all variations of Islam converge in one place, under the supervision of Saudi Arabia’s religious police. What results is a struggle to separate the spiritual from the political, Knight searching for a personal relationship to Islam in the context of how it's defined by the external world.

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Catapult

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1593765525

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9781593765521

The Path of Worshippers to the Paradise of the Lord of the Worlds

Minhaj al-abidin ila jannat rabb al-alamin

By: Imam Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazzali

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The Path of Worshippers to the Paradise of the Lord of the Worlds

Minhaj al-abidin ila jannat rabb al-alamin

By: Imam Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazzali

The Path of Worshippers to the Paradise of the Lord of the Universe is an authoritative book and a guideline on practical Sufism ('irfan-i 'amali). It is also a mirror to the soul of its author. In this book Ghazzali speaks not only as a scholar but also as a master and sincerely shares his spiritual experiences with his readers in a simple language and an intimate tone. These qualities of the book penetrate into the depth of the heart of the reader. The importance of the book lies in the fact that its author was the most prominent theologian and jurist of his time and its teachings are as valid today as they were when the author wrote the book just before his death in 505/1111.

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332

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University Press of America

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0761855734

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9780761855736

Why I Am a Salafi

By: Michael Muhammad Knight

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Why I Am a Salafi

By: Michael Muhammad Knight

The Salafi movement invests supreme Islamic authority in the precedents of the Salaf, the first three generations of Muslims, who represent a “Golden Age” from which all subsequent eras can only decline. In Why I Am a Salafi, Michael Muhammad Knight confronts the problem of origins, questioning the possibility of accessing pure Islam through its canonical texts. Why I Am a Salafi is also a confrontation of Knight’s own origins as a Muslim. Reconsidering Salafism, Knight explores the historical processes that informed Islam as he once knew it, having converted to a Salafi vision of Islam in 1994. In the decades since, he has drifted away from Salafism in favor of an alternative Islam that celebrates the freaks, misfits, and heretical innovators. What happens to Islam when everything’s up for grabs, and can an anything-goes Islam allow space for reputedly intolerant Salafism? In Why I Am a Salafi, Knight explores not only Salafism’s valorization of the origins, but takes the Salafi project further than its advocates are willing to go, and reflects upon the consequences of surrendering the origins forever.

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385

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Catapult

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1593766068

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9781593766061

Metaphysical Africa

Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community

By: Michael Muhammad Knight

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Metaphysical Africa

Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community

By: Michael Muhammad Knight

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.

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Penn State Press

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0271088532

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9780271088532

Eleven Fifty-Five

By: Abdul Allah Muhammad,Aishah Muhammad

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Eleven Fifty-Five

By: Abdul Allah Muhammad,Aishah Muhammad

Compilations of over 50 years of journalism by Abdul Allah Muhammad formally known as John Shabazz

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Rathsi Publishing, LLC

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1936937565

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9781936937561

A Long Jihad

My Quest for the Middle Way

By: Muhammad Abdul Bari

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A Long Jihad

My Quest for the Middle Way

By: Muhammad Abdul Bari

In this memoir, Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari asks us to look beyond the extremism and violence that all too often defines the Muslim community toward those, like himself, navigating a middle-way life. A path defined in Islam as the 'natural way', far away from the cliff of radicalisation that causes some to harm themselves and others. Through his personal journey as an Air Force officer in Bangladesh to the leader of the Muslim Council of Britain and beyond, Muhammad's reassuring reflections come to light: the importance of community engagement, civic responsibility, and what it means to live a good life. In articulating his positions Muhammad Abdul Bari offers Muslims, and everybody else, guidance on going forward as engaged, confident individuals, down a path that rejects radical views and seeks to stay in the centre, living a life of moderation that is, as the Qur'an says, 'justly balanced'.

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Kube Publishing Ltd

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1847741193

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Biographical Dictionary of the Companions of Prophet Muhammad

The Earliest Biographies of the 7th Century Arabians

By: Muhammad Abdul Jabbar Beg

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Biographical Dictionary of the Companions of Prophet Muhammad

The Earliest Biographies of the 7th Century Arabians

By: Muhammad Abdul Jabbar Beg

A who's who of early Islamic history, this dictionary provides biographies of the political leaders of early Islam and the religious personalities who knew the prophet Muhammed.

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0955584345

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A Short Encyclopaedia of the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad in the Context of Early Islamic History, 11-100 A.H./632-719 C.E

By: Muhammad Abdul Jabbar Beg

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A Short Encyclopaedia of the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad in the Context of Early Islamic History, 11-100 A.H./632-719 C.E

By: Muhammad Abdul Jabbar Beg

A study of the life of the Prophet Muhammad, as well as the lives of his disciples/companions.

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0955584302

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9780955584305

A Long Jihad

My Quest for the Middle Way

By: Muhammad Abdul Bari

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A Long Jihad

My Quest for the Middle Way

By: Muhammad Abdul Bari

In an era of extremism and polarization, Dr Bari's illuminating journey to find the middle path is a much-needed example of a modern Muslim's search for balance.

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1847741177

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Book's by Muhammad Abdulraoof

A Black Man's Journey in America: Glimpses of Islam, Conversations and Travels

A Black Man's Journey in America: Glimpses of Islam, Conversations and Travels

Journey to the End of Islam

Journey to the End of Islam

The Path of Worshippers to the Paradise of the Lord of the Worlds

The Path of Worshippers to the Paradise of the Lord of the Worlds

Why I Am a Salafi

Why I Am a Salafi

Metaphysical Africa

Metaphysical Africa

Eleven Fifty-Five

Eleven Fifty-Five

A Long Jihad

A Long Jihad

Biographical Dictionary of the Companions of Prophet Muhammad

Biographical Dictionary of the Companions of Prophet Muhammad

A Short Encyclopaedia of the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad in the Context of Early Islamic History, 11-100 A.H./632-719 C.E

A Short Encyclopaedia of the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad in the Context of Early Islamic History, 11-100 A.H./632-719 C.E

A Long Jihad

A Long Jihad

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