Robert Dannin
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195300246
- eISBN:
- 9780199850433
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195300246.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
Naima Saif’ullah’s biography depicts the religious conversion of a modern woman. Naima’s biography describes how she was able to break bad habits of smoking crack or marijuana, how her health ...
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Naima Saif’ullah’s biography depicts the religious conversion of a modern woman. Naima’s biography describes how she was able to break bad habits of smoking crack or marijuana, how her health conditions have improved, how she was able to realize and better fulfill her roles as a daughter, mother, and sister, and how she was able to attain psychic stability through her Islamic faith. The inclusion of an account of how Islam provides women with empowerment and courage to face problems as strong-willed adults is vital to this study because not only does this address general questions regarding African-American women who have adopted Islam, but it also embodies a historical account of the independent Sunni movements that occurred during the 1980s.Less
Naima Saif’ullah’s biography depicts the religious conversion of a modern woman. Naima’s biography describes how she was able to break bad habits of smoking crack or marijuana, how her health conditions have improved, how she was able to realize and better fulfill her roles as a daughter, mother, and sister, and how she was able to attain psychic stability through her Islamic faith. The inclusion of an account of how Islam provides women with empowerment and courage to face problems as strong-willed adults is vital to this study because not only does this address general questions regarding African-American women who have adopted Islam, but it also embodies a historical account of the independent Sunni movements that occurred during the 1980s.
James D. Frankel
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824834746
- eISBN:
- 9780824871734
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824834746.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
This chapter deals with the single greatest challenge facing Liu Zhi and his fellow Han Kitāb scholars: the translation of Islam's uncompromising monotheism into Chinese. Likely wishing to avoid ...
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This chapter deals with the single greatest challenge facing Liu Zhi and his fellow Han Kitāb scholars: the translation of Islam's uncompromising monotheism into Chinese. Likely wishing to avoid attaching any possible negative or misleading implication to the sacred name of God, Liu Zhi did not resort to transliteration of the Arabic Allāh. Neither did he attempt to find a matching concept for Allah in the classical Chinese canon, for example, one of the ancient Chinese designations for divinity, such as Shangdi, tian (“Heaven”), or the more generic shen (“god”). Instead of his usual techniques, as a matter of fact, he opted to use newly coined Chinese terms for the most central concept of the Islamic faith, and in the process, whether consciously or unconsciously, he retraced the steps of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim writers in Chinese before him.Less
This chapter deals with the single greatest challenge facing Liu Zhi and his fellow Han Kitāb scholars: the translation of Islam's uncompromising monotheism into Chinese. Likely wishing to avoid attaching any possible negative or misleading implication to the sacred name of God, Liu Zhi did not resort to transliteration of the Arabic Allāh. Neither did he attempt to find a matching concept for Allah in the classical Chinese canon, for example, one of the ancient Chinese designations for divinity, such as Shangdi, tian (“Heaven”), or the more generic shen (“god”). Instead of his usual techniques, as a matter of fact, he opted to use newly coined Chinese terms for the most central concept of the Islamic faith, and in the process, whether consciously or unconsciously, he retraced the steps of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim writers in Chinese before him.
Edward E. Curtis IV
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807830543
- eISBN:
- 9781469606088
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807877449_curtis
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam came to America's attention in the 1960s and 1970s as a radical separatist African American social and political group, but the movement was also a religious one. ...
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Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam came to America's attention in the 1960s and 1970s as a radical separatist African American social and political group, but the movement was also a religious one. This book offers a comprehensive examination of the rituals, ethics, theologies, and religious narratives of the Nation of Islam, showing how the movement combined elements of Afro-Eurasian Islamic traditions with African American traditions to create a new form of Islamic faith. Considering everything from bean pies to religious cartoons, clothing styles to prayer rituals, the author explains how the practice of Islam in the movement included the disciplining and purifying of the black body, the reorientation of African American historical consciousness toward the Muslim world, an engagement with both mainstream Islamic texts and the prophecies of Elijah Muhammad, and the development of a holistic approach to political, religious, and social liberation. His analysis pushes beyond essentialist ideas about what it means to be Muslim, and offers a view of the importance of local processes in identity formation and the appropriation of Islamic traditions.Less
Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam came to America's attention in the 1960s and 1970s as a radical separatist African American social and political group, but the movement was also a religious one. This book offers a comprehensive examination of the rituals, ethics, theologies, and religious narratives of the Nation of Islam, showing how the movement combined elements of Afro-Eurasian Islamic traditions with African American traditions to create a new form of Islamic faith. Considering everything from bean pies to religious cartoons, clothing styles to prayer rituals, the author explains how the practice of Islam in the movement included the disciplining and purifying of the black body, the reorientation of African American historical consciousness toward the Muslim world, an engagement with both mainstream Islamic texts and the prophecies of Elijah Muhammad, and the development of a holistic approach to political, religious, and social liberation. His analysis pushes beyond essentialist ideas about what it means to be Muslim, and offers a view of the importance of local processes in identity formation and the appropriation of Islamic traditions.
