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Metaphysical Africa : truth and blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community /

"Describes the Ansaru Allah Community/Nubian Islamic Hebrews (AAC/NIH), a 1970s religious movement in Brooklyn that spread, in part, through the production and dissemination of literature and lecture tapes. Tracks the development of AAC/NIH discourse to reveal surprising consistency and coheren...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Knight, Michael Muhammad (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]
Series:Africana religions.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : "the most dynamic pamphlets in history"
  • "I am the raisin-headed slave" : the Nubian Ahl al-Bayt, Sudanese Mahdiyya, and global blackness as Islamic revival
  • Heralds of the reformer : visions of Blackamerican Muslim history
  • "The covenant is complete in me" : Nubian Islamic Hebraism and the religion of Abraham
  • Between Zion and Mecca : Bilal as Islamic and Hebrew
  • The Sudan is the heart chakra : The AAC/NIH as Sufi tariqa
  • Islam is Hotep : Ansar Egyptosophy
  • The pyramid Ka ʻba : Malachi Z. York and the Nuwaubian turn
  • Nuwaubian ether : Ansar legacies in hip-hop
  • Coda : the view from Illyuwn.