Style Politics in der Nation of Islam

2012 ◽  
pp. 249-294
Keyword(s):  
Nation Of Islam

Black Muslim Theology and the Classical Islamic Tradition

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 61-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wesley Williams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nation Of Islam ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
Elijah Muhammad ◽  
Black Muslim

Elijah Muhammad declared unapologetically that “God is aman.” This anthropomorphist doctrine does violence to modern normative Islamic articulations of tawú¥d (monotheism), the articulations of which involve God’s “otherness” from the created world. The Nation of Islam (NOI), therefore, has been the target of polemics from Muslim leaders who, from within and without the United States, have declared its irredeemable heterodoxy. But in premodern Islam, heresy was in the eye of the beholder and “orthodoxy” was a precarious and shifting paradigm. This paper attempts to, in the words of Zafar Ishaq Ansari, “examine how the ‘Nation of Islam’ fits into the framework of Islamic heresiology.”

To Make the Wounded Whole

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Royles
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Nation Of Islam ◽  
Black America ◽  
Black Feminists ◽  
Aids Activism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Global Work ◽  
Hiv Aids

In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities. Members of those communities mobilized to fight the epidemic and its consequences from the beginning of the AIDS activist movement. They struggled not only to overcome the stigma and denial surrounding a “white gay disease” in Black America, but also to bring resources to struggling communities that were often dismissed as too “hard to reach.” To Make the Wounded Whole offers the first history of African American AIDS activism in all of its depth and breadth. Dan Royles introduces a diverse constellation of activists, including medical professionals, Black gay intellectuals, church pastors, Nation of Islam leaders, recovering drug users, and Black feminists who pursued a wide array of grassroots approaches to slow the epidemic's spread and address its impacts. Through interlinked stories from Philadelphia and Atlanta to South Africa and back again, Royles documents the diverse, creative, and global work of African American activists in the decades-long battle against HIV/AIDS.

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