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This detailed study of the internal workings of the Nation of Islam under the leadership of Louis Farrakhan examines the evolution of the organization since 1977 and its strange ideological menu of Black Nationalism, political-economic development, anti-Semitism, and conservative Republican ideals. Vibert White maintains that Farrakhan's Nation has become a cult that utilizes black nationalistic and religious dogma and its ability to create political and racial controversy to exploit poor and working-class black Americans for the leaders' economic and political gain. At the heart of Inside the Nation is White's chronicle of his own sojourn during the 1980s and 1990s as a registered Muslim--from his days as a foot soldier in the Fruit of Islam, the Nation's military organization, through his rise to the status of minister and advisor to the leadership. Included are White's dealings with such leaders as Louis Farrakhan, Akbar Muhammad, Khallid Muhammad, and Benjamin Chavis Muhammad and his involvement in such activities as the Million Man March. As one who traveled for the organization throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the United States, White was able to observe the leadership and the operation of the group at close hand. He reveals for the first time the detailed structure of NOI's business and religious operation. He explores and separates the Nation of Islam, the religious arm that is incorporated only in Chicago, from the Final Call, its business center operated only by the Farrakhan family. As a professional historian, White was able to separate the passion of the group's rhetoric from its real objectives, which centered on building a personal empire for Louis Farrakhan.

Black Muslims --- Bilalians --- Nation of Islam (Movement) --- African Americans --- Black nationalism --- Muslims --- History. --- Religion --- Farrakhan, Louis. --- פאראקן, לואיס --- Charmer --- Faraḳan, Luʼis --- Farrakhan, Abdul Haleem --- Muhammad, Louis Farrakhan --- Walcott, Louis Eugene --- Wolcott, Louis Eugene --- X, Louis --- Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.) --- American Muslim Mission --- World Community of al-Islam in the West --- NOI --- ONOI --- Original Nation of Islam --- Umat ha-Islam (Chicago, Ill.) --- אומת האיסלאם

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Explores modern African-American Islamic thought within the context of Islamic history, giving special attention to questions of universality versus particularity.

African Americans --- Black Muslims --- African American Muslims --- Negritude --- Bilalians --- Nation of Islam (Movement) --- Black nationalism --- Muslims --- Afro-American Muslims --- Muslims, African American --- Race identity. --- Religion. --- History. --- Ethnic identity --- Religion --- Musulmans noirs américains --- Noirs américains --- Identité ethnique

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 This book examines the varied ways in which Minister Farrakhan’s Resurrected Nation of Islam appeals to men from different backgrounds. Dawn-Marie Gibson investigates a number of themes including faith, family, and community, making use of archival research and engaging in-depth interviews. The book considers the multifaceted ways in which men encounter the Nation of Islam (NOI) and navigate its ethics and gender norms. Gibson describes and dissects the factors that attract men to the NOI, while also considering the challenges that these men confront as new converts. She discusses the various inter-faith and community outreach efforts that men engage in and assesses their work with both their Christian and Muslim counterparts. To conclude its discussion, the book takes a look at the NOI’s 2015 Justice or Else March to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Million Man March in Washington, DC.

Gender identity-Religious aspect. --- Black Muslims. --- Farrakhan, Louis. --- Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.) --- Bilalians --- Black Muslims --- Nation of Islam (Movement) --- פאראקן, לואיס --- Charmer --- Faraḳan, Luʼis --- Farrakhan, Abdul Haleem --- Muhammad, Louis Farrakhan --- Walcott, Louis Eugene --- Wolcott, Louis Eugene --- X, Louis --- NOI --- ONOI --- Original Nation of Islam --- Umat ha-Islam (Chicago, Ill.) --- אומת האיסלאם --- African Americans --- Black nationalism --- Muslims --- Religion --- American Muslim Mission --- World Community of al-Islam in the West --- Islam-Doctrines. --- African Americans. --- Religion and sociology. --- Islamic Theology. --- African American Culture. --- Religion and Society. --- Religion and Gender. --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Islam—Doctrines. --- Gender identity—Religious aspects. --- Black people --- Farrakhan, Louis

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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.

Nuwaubian movement --- African Americans --- History. --- Religion. --- York, Dwight, --- Nubian Islamic Hebrews --- American Islam. --- Ansaaru Allah. --- Ansaru Allah. --- Black Islam. --- Black religion. --- Bushwick. --- Islam. --- Islamic hip hop. --- Malachi Z. York. --- Moorish Science. --- Nation of Islam. --- Nubian Islamic Hebrews. --- Nuwaubian. --- Nuwaubu. --- Nuwaupian. --- Nuwaupu. --- Rizq. --- Sudan. --- Sudanese diaspora – U.S. --- Supreme Mathematics. --- hip hop.

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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.

Nuwaubian movement --- African Americans --- History. --- Religion. --- York, Dwight, --- Nubian Islamic Hebrews --- American Islam. --- Ansaaru Allah. --- Ansaru Allah. --- Black Islam. --- Black religion. --- Bushwick. --- Islam. --- Islamic hip hop. --- Malachi Z. York. --- Moorish Science. --- Nation of Islam. --- Nubian Islamic Hebrews. --- Nuwaubian. --- Nuwaubu. --- Nuwaupian. --- Nuwaupu. --- Rizq. --- Sudan. --- Sudanese diaspora – U.S. --- Supreme Mathematics. --- hip hop.