Metaphysical Africa : : Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community / / Michael Muhammad Knight.
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...
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Knight, Michael Muhammad, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Metaphysical Africa : Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community / Michael Muhammad Knight. University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021] ©2020 1 online resource (314 p.) : 37 illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Africana Religions ; 4 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Introduction “The Most Dynamic Pamphlets in History” -- 1 “I Am the Raisin-Headed Slave”: The Nubian Ahl al-Bayt, Sudanese Mahdiyya, and Global Blackness as Islamic Revival -- 2 Heralds of the Reformer: Visions of Blackamerican Muslim History -- 3 “The Covenant Is Complete in Me”: Nubian Islamic Hebraism and the Religion of Abraham -- 4 Between Zion and Mecca: Bilal as Islamic and Hebrew -- 5 The Sudan Is the Heart Chakra: The AAC/NIH as Sufi Tariqa -- 6 Islam Is Hotep: Ansar Egyptosophy -- 7 The Pyramidal Kaʿba: Malachi Z. York and the Nuwaubian Turn -- 8 Nuwaubian Ether: Ansar Legacies in Hip-Hop -- Coda The View from Illyuwn -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023) African Americans Religion. Nuwaubian movement United States History. PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics. bisacsh 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. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 9783110745214 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271088556?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271088556 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780271088556/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Introduction “The Most Dynamic Pamphlets in History” -- 1 “I Am the Raisin-Headed Slave”: The Nubian Ahl al-Bayt, Sudanese Mahdiyya, and Global Blackness as Islamic Revival -- 2 Heralds of the Reformer: Visions of Blackamerican Muslim History -- 3 “The Covenant Is Complete in Me”: Nubian Islamic Hebraism and the Religion of Abraham -- 4 Between Zion and Mecca: Bilal as Islamic and Hebrew -- 5 The Sudan Is the Heart Chakra: The AAC/NIH as Sufi Tariqa -- 6 Islam Is Hotep: Ansar Egyptosophy -- 7 The Pyramidal Kaʿba: Malachi Z. York and the Nuwaubian Turn -- 8 Nuwaubian Ether: Ansar Legacies in Hip-Hop -- Coda The View from Illyuwn -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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