Black Muslim Theology and the Classical Islamic Tradition

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 th...

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Autor principal:	Wesley Williams
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	International Institute of Islamic Thought 2008
Materias:	Islam BP1-253
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:77c55b8656ba4b23af17d0fdeb89760d2021-12-02T17:49:40ZBlack Muslim Theology and the Classical Islamic Tradition10.35632/ajis.v25i4.4122690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/77c55b8656ba4b23af17d0fdeb89760d2008-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/412https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 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.” Wesley WilliamsInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 25, Iss 4 (2008)
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Black Muslim Theology and the Classical Islamic Tradition

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