Blackness and Islam - Imam Dawud Walid Material:Hard Cover and beyond a way of

and beyond a way of being from which we have much to learn

Hardcover: ‎32 pages

The Sufi path is marked by a number of different stages or stations (maqam/maqamat) which the Sufi traveller (salik) passes through as he advances on the path

Interviews with young Muslims in Chicago explore the complexity of identities formed at the crossroads of Islam and hip hop

Moving beyond providing generic descriptive terminology

Blackness and Islam - Imam Dawud Walid Material:Hard Cover and beyond a way ofMuslims 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