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Metaphysical Africa - Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community (Paperback)
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Metaphysical Africa - Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community (Paperback)
Series: Africana Religions
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The Ansaru Allah Community, also known as the Nubian Islamic
Hebrews (AAC/NIH) and later the Nuwaubians, is a deeply significant
and controversial African American Muslim movement. Founded in
Brooklyn in the 1960s, it spread through the prolific production
and dissemination of literature and lecture tapes and became famous
for continuously reinventing its belief system. In this book,
Michael Muhammad Knight studies the development of AAC/NIH
discourse over a period of thirty years, tracing a surprising
consistency behind a facade of serial reinvention. It is popularly
believed that the AAC/NIH community abandoned Islam for Black
Israelite religion, UFO religion, and Egyptosophy. However, Knight
sees coherence in AAC/NIH media, explaining how, in reality, the
community taught that the Prophet Muhammad was a Hebrew who adhered
to Israelite law; Muhammad's heavenly ascension took place on a
spaceship; and Abraham enlisted the help of a pharaonic regime to
genetically engineer pigs as food for white people. Against
narratives that treat the AAC/NIH community as a postmodernist
deconstruction of religious categories, Knight demonstrates that
AAC/NIH discourse is most productively framed within a broader
African American metaphysical history in which boundaries between
traditions remain quite permeable. Unexpected and engrossing,
Metaphysical Africa brings to light points of intersection between
communities and traditions often regarded as separate and distinct.
In doing so, it helps move the field of religious studies beyond
conventional categories of "orthodoxy" and "heterodoxy,"
challenging assumptions that inform not only the study of this
particular religious community but also the field at large.
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