Sunday, May 01, 2005

two pieces on islam and american culture

An Africana View of Progressive American Islam by A.S. Mahdi Ibn-Ziyad. This is a brief article giving another formulation/overview of "progressive islam".

East of the Sun (West of the Moon): The Harmonic History of Islam Among Asian and African Americans by Moustafa Bayoumi. This lecture has three sections, the first one (about the experiences of an Ahmadi missionary in the US) and the third (about the spread of Islam among jazz musicians) were the most interesting to me. A middle section about Malcolm X wasn't very deep or new.

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