The Dissemination and Implementation of Islam within the African American Community

The United States may be the most racially diverse and religiously pluralistic nation-state today. However, it is also arguably the most societally biased, one where many religious communities are frequently divided along distinct lines predicated upon race, color, ethnicity, and faith tradition. T...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:59100df4dc0049d39ade2b187b15a0942021-12-02T18:18:41ZThe Dissemination and Implementation of Islam within the African American Community10.35632/ajis.v38i1-2.7522690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/59100df4dc0049d39ade2b187b15a0942021-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/752https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 The United States may be the most racially diverse and religiously pluralistic nation-state today. However, it is also arguably the most societally biased, one where many religious communities are frequently divided along distinct lines predicated upon race, color, ethnicity, and faith tradition. The sociohistorical displacement and dissemination of Islamic power away from indigenous African American Muslims to the newly disembarked post-1965 immigrant Muslims underscore the nascent religio-racial origins of how Islamic identity, membership, community, and consciousness within America has now become unusually conflated with race, culture, and ethnicity within our nation’s social imaginary. That is, what it contextually means to be a Muslim in the United States has now become a highly contested, problematic, and racialized category within American Islam—a segregated Islamic reality and existence that is being renegotiated and challenged by modern-day Black Muslims dissatisfied with their oppressed, marginalized and subaltern condition as Muslim Americans within the umma. Rafiqur RahmanInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleAfrican American StudiesBlack MuslimsNation of IslāmRacismReligionAfrican American HistoryIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 38, Iss 1-2 (2021)
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language EN
topic African American Studies
Black Muslims
Nation of Islām
Racism
Religion
African American History
Islam
BP1-253
spellingShingle African American Studies
Black Muslims
Nation of Islām
Racism
Religion
African American History
Islam
BP1-253
Rafiqur Rahman
The Dissemination and Implementation of Islam within the African American Community
description The United States may be the most racially diverse and religiously pluralistic nation-state today. However, it is also arguably the most societally biased, one where many religious communities are frequently divided along distinct lines predicated upon race, color, ethnicity, and faith tradition. The sociohistorical displacement and dissemination of Islamic power away from indigenous African American Muslims to the newly disembarked post-1965 immigrant Muslims underscore the nascent religio-racial origins of how Islamic identity, membership, community, and consciousness within America has now become unusually conflated with race, culture, and ethnicity within our nation’s social imaginary. That is, what it contextually means to be a Muslim in the United States has now become a highly contested, problematic, and racialized category within American Islam—a segregated Islamic reality and existence that is being renegotiated and challenged by modern-day Black Muslims dissatisfied with their oppressed, marginalized and subaltern condition as Muslim Americans within the umma.
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