Blackness and Islam by Dawud Walid

Blackness and Islam by Dawud Walid

ISBN: 9781909853195

Author: Dawud Walid

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 150

Size: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.38 Inches

Publisher: Algorithm

Language: English

Publication Year: 2021

About This Book

Muslims speak of Islam in egalitarian terms: the religion of peace, the religion that seeks to elevate man over his base desires, the religion that does not discriminate based on race and ethnicity. Despite the egalitarian spirit of Islam, the lived reality of many Muslims is very different, and this is most apparent when we observe how Muslims deal with race and ethnicity. Muslims who are Black in the West in particular, have found that while Islam may not discriminate based on race, many Muslims do. To make matters worse, some of those Muslims will delve in to the Islamic tradition to justify their biases and bigotries, seeing no contradiction between their racism and the Islamic ideals.