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Metaphysical Africa - Michael Muhammad Knight

Metaphysical Africa

Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community
Buch | Hardcover
314 Seiten
2020
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-08709-2 (ISBN)
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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 coherence behind the appearance of serial reinvention.
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.

Michael Muhammad Knight is Assistant Professor of Religion and Cultural Studies at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of thirteen books, including most recently Muhammad: Forty Introductions.

Acknowledgments

List of 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

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Africana Religions
Zusatzinfo 37 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort University Park
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 145 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik / Ontologie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Östliche Philosophie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 0-271-08709-9 / 0271087099
ISBN-13 978-0-271-08709-2 / 9780271087092
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