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Our Family's Evolution - From Nationalism to Al-Islam
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ISBN13: 9780985961923
Publisher: Bait-Cal Publishing
Published: Mar 27 2019
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This autobiographical work presents a rigorously grounded historical examination of the emergence and development of Al-Islam among African Americans in the United States. Drawing upon more than ninety years of familial experience, Abdul Karim Hasan offers a first-person account that situates personal narrative within broader social, political, and religious transformations shaping Black life in America.
The text traces the introduction of Islam into African-American communities through a carefully documented progression of events beginning in the post-emancipation period and extending into the contemporary era. Hasan examines the conditions of African-American life following the Civil War, including systemic racial violence, economic marginalization, and the Great Migration, contextualizing the rise of Black Nationalist movements as both social responses and spiritual frameworks. These movements, the author argues, functioned as transitional structures that ultimately facilitated the widespread embrace of Islam among African Americans.
Central to the analysis is Hasan's exploration of early twentieth-century leaders such as Marcus Garvey and Noble Drew Ali, whose ideologies contributed to the formation of racial consciousness and religious self-determination. Through detailed family histories and personal testimony, Hasan demonstrates how these intellectual currents laid the foundation for the later growth of the Nation of Islam and its unique role within American religious history.
Hasan's direct involvement with the Nation of Islam-beginning with his conversion in 1956 and subsequent rise to national leadership-provides valuable primary-source insight into the organization's internal development, institutional expansion, and sociopolitical influence. His work alongside The Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X, as well as his appointment as the Nation's West Coast representative in 1971, allows the text to document organizational dynamics rarely addressed in academic literature from an insider perspective.
The book gives particular attention to the pivotal transition of 1975, when large numbers of African Americans entered mainstream universal Islam under the leadership of Imam W. Deen Mohammed. Hasan analyzes this moment as a critical realignment of religious identity, theology, and global engagement, marking one of the most significant mass religious transformations in American history.
Supplemented by archival photographs, historical documents, and annotated materials, the volume serves as a substantive resource for scholars of African-American studies, religious studies, sociology, and modern American history. Hasan's dual role as participant and historian allows for a nuanced treatment that bridges ethnographic narrative and historical analysis.
Abdul Karim Hasan is the director and resident Imam of Masjid Bilal Islamic Center in Los Angeles, recognized as the city's oldest identifiable Muslim community. An internationally acknowledged Muslim historian, he has been honored for his contributions to Islamic outreach and scholarship, including the Da'wah Medal of Excellence awarded by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 1993.
Written at the encouragement of Imam W. Deen Mohammed, this work contributes significantly to the scholarly understanding of Islam's development among African Americans, offering an authoritative account that challenges oversimplified narratives and enriches the academic study of religion and race in the United States.
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