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The work that you hold in your hands - "The Moslem World and the
Voice of Islam" - is the third, and final, American Muslim
newspaper edited and published by Muhammad Alexander Russell Webb.
It ran for fourteen monthly issues from January 1895 to February
1896.
The 1893 World Parliament of Religion: Islam Papers This is a
collection of speeches at the 1893 World Parliament of Relions held
in Chicago. It includes papers from Muslims (especially Muhammad
Alexander Russell Webb) and from Christian missionaries and
scholars.
This is the Bosnian language edition of Imam Camil Avdic's study of
Bosnia's history and the development of a Bosnian ethnic and
national identity. The span of Bosnian history from medieval times
to the various conquests (Turkish, Austro-Hungarian, and the
formation of Yugoslavia) of the land that would become Yugoslavia
are covered. This is a unique work that also includes a study of
Bosnians in the United States and has a bibliography of all of
Avdic's articles and books published in the English and Bosnian
languages.
A study of the development of the John Crerar Library from
conception to its growth and acquistions and cataloging
methodologies.
This is a work by the Seattle based minister James Morris Webb on
the idea that Jesus and all the Biblical prophets were of African
descent. Widely read within the Garvey Movement, the Rastafarians,
and other early African identity and Black Nationalist groups.
This brief work is the thesis of Imam Kamil Yusuf Avdich
(1914-1979) written for the School of Higher Shariah in Sarajevo in
1937. Avdich was a pioneer in the history of Islam in America -- he
started some of the earliest Islamic periodicals in the United
States, wrote "An Outline of Islam" the first textbook for Islamic
Sunday Schools, and led the Bosnian Muslim community in Chicago.
"Several years ago in Vienna, a historical discussion of Bosnia
came from the pen of the renowned and reputable Bosnian Muslim
intellectual Camil J. Avdic, who lives in the United States.
Probably due to its economic scope and design, the work - which
carries the title Bosna u historijskoj Perspektivi (Bosnia in
historical perspective) - has not received the appropriate public
attention, although it can be said to be an extremely interesting
and a valuable contribution to the discussion about the historical
fate of Bosnia." -- From a review in the Croatian journal "Croatia
Zora"
Shaykh Daoud taught Islam from the Great Depression until the
seventies as a religion that was the true light of the Civil Rights
Movement. This father of American Islam paved the road for the
Dar-ul-Islam, Jamil al-Amin, the Fuqara, Imam Isa and the
Nuwabians, and Brooklyn's Masjid Farooq through his Islamic Mission
to America. This work Islam, the True Faith, the Religion of
Humanity is the first collected work from his pen.
This work marks the first reprinting of Muhammad Alexander Russell
Webb's pamphlet on the Turkish viewpoint on the allegations of an
Armenian Genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire.
On Sunday, April 8, 1979, a memorial academy for Dr. Muhammed Iqbal
was held in at the Islamic Cultural Center in Northbrook, Illinois
from 10:30 A.M. to the Noon Prayer. Brother Afsar Ali Khan, a
distinguished member of the Board of Directors of ICC emceed the
affair. The following scholars took part in the academy: Prof.
Ihsan Zulfikary, Dr. Muhammad Abdul Wahid Fakhri, Imam Kamil Yusuf
Avdich, and Professor Fazlur Rahman (Professor of Islamic Thought
at the University of Chicago). Mr. Abdul Mulik Sayeedi chanted some
of Iqbal's poetry in Urdu.
This is a translation of the only extant book on Islamic Law
written in Arabic during the era of slavery in the United States.
It also includes photos of the original text and a biography of the
author Bilali Muhammad. Proceeds from this edition will be used to
rebuild the Praise Houses and Rosenwald schools on Bilali's last
home of Sapelo Island.
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