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Bilali Muhammad's Meditations
The text that you hold in your hands is a translation of the unique work on Islamic Law and Beliefs by Bilali Muhammad (1770s-1857) of Sapelo Island, Georgia. This includes a biography of Bilali Muhammad, a translation of his writings, a list of words from the Gullah dialect of English from him and other early Muslims, a description of the education system he studied under and the texts he studied, and a discussion placing Bilali's work in the context of Islam in the West and the effects of the slave trade. This grandfather of American Islamic Literature needs to be further studied and this work starts the process.
Islamic American Heritage
This book provides five lessons about Muslims who traveled to and explored America before the colonies were established, and five lessons about Muslims who lived in America during the colonial days. Each lesson is accompanied by study questions and creative extension activities. The material is designed to provide provoke discussion about issues debated in American history. Additional related extension materials are available for free at www.islamicschoolresources.com This is the only textbook for Muslim children that will allow students to learn another view of American history. They will learn about Muslim heroes such as Khashkhash ibn Saeed, Mansa Abu Bakr II, and Estevanico, Anthony Van Salee, and Yusef Ben Ali. Students will learn about the legend of Queen Califia, the legends of the Melungeons, Columbus' relationship with Muslims, and the Moor Sundry Act of 1790.
A Muslim American Slave
Born to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United States, where he came to the attention of a prominent North Carolina family after filling “the walls of his room with piteous petitions to be released, all written in the Arabic language,” as one local newspaper reported. Ibn Said soon became a local celebrity, and in 1831 he was asked to write his life story, producing the only known surviving American slave narrative written in Arabic. In A Muslim American Slave, scholar and translator Ala Alryyes offers both a definitive translation and an authoritative edition of this singularly important work, lending new insights into...
Muhammad Iqbal and the Spirit of Muslim Revival
On Sunday, April 8, 1979, a memorial academy for Dr. Muhammed Iqbal was held in at the Islamic Cultural Center in Northbrook, Illinois from 10:30 A.M. to the Noon Prayer. Brother Afsar Ali Khan , a distinguished member of the Board of Directors of ICC emceed the affair. The following scholars took part in the academy: Prof. Ihsan Zulfikary, Dr. Muhammad Abdul Wahid Fakhri, Imam Kamil Yusuf Avdich, and Professor Fazlur Rahman (Professor of Islamic Thought at the University of Chicago). Mr. Abdul Mulik Sayeedi chanted some of Iqbal's poetry in Urdu.
The Second Moorish Akashik Records
This is an annotated edition of one of the source texts for the Holy Koran of the Moorish Science Temple of American published in Chicago in 1927 by Timothy Drew under the name Prophet Noble Drew Ali.
Black Pilgrimage to Islam
Islam has become an increasingly attractive option for many African-Americans. This book offers an ethnographic study of this phenomenon & asks what attraction the Qur'an has for them & how the Islamic lifestyle accommodates mainstream US values.
Islam Outside the Arab World
Today about 85 per cent of the world population of Muslims live in areas outside the Arab world, and due to population growth, missionary endeavours and migration, the number of Muslims in these areas is rising rapidly. This volume presents the spread and character of Islam in many non-Arab countries, focusing particularly on the contemporary situation. The book deals with the great variety and complexity that characterize Islam outside the Arab world, with Sufism (the predominant form of Islam in most non-Arab Muslim countries), and with the growing significance of Islamism which challenges secularism and Sufi forms of Islam.
A Heritage of East and West
Selected articles by the noted Bosnian-American Islamic leader, ?amil Avdi? (1914-1979). He was a graduate of three colleges on three continents: the College of Islamic Studies/Sarajevo, al-Azhar/Cairo and Rosary College/Chicago. He started to write on Islam even as a student in his native Bosnia. Later he served on editorial boards of Arabic-language journals in Egypt and on Lahore/Pakistan's periodical Islamic Literature. This book is a compilation of all of his known English-language articles collected from various periodicals. They offer a unique perspective on issues of assimilation and acculturation in the Muslim community in the West, as well as important aspects of post-Ottoman Bosnian history.
A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 2
In A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 2: The African American Islamic Renaissance, 1920-1975 Patrick D. Bowen offers an in-depth account of African American Islam as it developed in the United States during the fifty-five years that followed World War I. Having been shaped by a wide variety of intellectual and social influences, the ‘African American Islamic Renaissance’ appears here as a movement that was characterized by both great complexity and diversity. Drawing from a wide variety of sources—including dozens of FBI files, rare books and periodicals, little-known archives and interviews, and even folktale collections—Patrick D. Bowen disentangles the myriad social and religious factors that produced this unprecedented period of religious transformation.
