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Race and American Islam

Race and American Islam. Jamillah Karim, PhD. The Mohammed Schools. My senior class at W. D. Mohammed High School featured in the NYT in 1993. Islam “is unique among the religious traditions for the diversity of the peoples that have embraced it.”. Marshall G. S. Hodgson.

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Race and American Islam

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  1. Race and American Islam Jamillah Karim, PhD

  2. The Mohammed Schools • My senior class at W. D. Mohammed High School featured in the NYT in 1993

  3. Islam “is unique among the religious traditions for the diversity of the peoples that have embraced it.” Marshall G. S. Hodgson

  4. “Islam for the first time created a truly universal civilization, extending from Southern Europe to Central Africa, from the Atlantic Ocean to India and China.” Within “a common religious culture,” Islam brought “peoples as diverse as the Chinese, the Indians, the people of the Middle East and North Africa, black Africans, and white Europeans.” Bernard Lewis

  5. Likens the Islamic cultural legacy to “a brilliant peacock’s tail of unity in diversity,” extending “from the heart of China to the shores of the Atlantic.” Umar Faruq Abd-Allah

  6. “A white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over a white except by piety and good action. Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood.” The Prophet Muhammad

  7. Malcolm X

  8. Fard Muhammad

  9. Elijah Muhammad

  10. Women of the Nation Between Black Protest and Sunni Islam

  11. Malcolm X • “America needs to understand Islam because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.”

  12. American Muslim Women Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah

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