عنوان

Engagement and resistance: African Americans, Saudi Arabia and Islamic transnationalisms, 1975 to 2000

Number

TL49054

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Engagement and resistance: African Americans, Saudi Arabia and Islamic transnationalisms, 1975 to 2000

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Jeff Diamant

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Taylor, Clarence

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

City University of New York

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2016

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

277

Text of Note

Committee members: Baron, Beth; Curtis IV, Edward E.; Davis, Simon; Haykel, Bernard

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-20019-5

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

History

Body granting the degree

City University of New York

Text preceding or following the note

2016

Text of Note

Since the 1960s, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has financed missionary efforts to Muslims around the world, attempting to spread a Salafi form of Islam that professes strict adherence to Islamic sacred scripture. The effects of this transnational proselytization have depended on numerous factors in "host countries." This project explores the various impacts of Saudi transnational religious influence in the United States among African-Americans. By relying on previously unused documentary sources and fresh oral histories, it shows how Saudi "soft power" attempted to effect change in religious practices of African-American Muslims from 1975 through 2000. It provides the most detailed examination and interpretation yet of Wallace Mohammed's groundbreaking tenure as leader of the Nation of Islam and its successor groups after 1975, showing how he led his organization to variously accept and resist Saudi efforts to dictate the terms of Islam in America to African-Americans, while he oversaw a general acceptance of Sunni Islam. This project also describes and interprets the acceptance of quietist Salafi religious ideals and practices by thousands of African-Americans, in a Salafi movement associated with graduates of Saudi Islamic universities.

African American Studies; American history; Middle Eastern Studies

Subject Term

Social sciences;African American history;American history;American religious history;Islam;Islam in America;Middle East history

Vakil, Sidhra K.

Taylor, Clarence

Subdivision

History

City University of New York

Call Number

1845027365; 10165643

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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