| America's Other Muslims: Imam W.D. Mohammed, Islamic Reform, and the Making of American Islam Contributor(s): Fraser-Rahim, Muhammad (Author) |
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ISBN: 1498590195 ISBN-13: 9781498590198 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $103.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | World - African - History | United States - 20th Century - Religion | Islam - History |
| Dewey: 305.697 |
| LCCN: 2019956280 |
| Series: Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New Worl |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.86 lbs) 148 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 was created 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. |