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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2020
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Africana Religions ; 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (314 p.) :; 37 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • 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