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Sto caricando le informazioni... American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, DCdi Shahan Mufti
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"The riveting true story of America's first homegrown Muslim terror attack, the 1977 Hanafi siege of Washington, D.C"--
Late in the morning of March 9, 1977, seven men stormed the Washington, D.C., headquarters of B'nai B'rith International, the largest and oldest Jewish service organization in America. The heavily armed attackers quickly took control of the building and held more than a hundred employees of the organization hostage inside. A little over an hour later, three more men entered the Islamic Center of Washington, the country's largest and most important mosque, and took hostages there. Two others subsequently penetrated the District Building, a few hundred yards from the White House. When a firefight broke out, a reporter was killed, and Marion Barry, later to become mayor of Washington, D.C., was shot in the chest. The deadly standoff brought downtown Washington to a standstill. The attackers belonged to the Hanafi Movement, an African American Muslim group based in D.C. Their leader was a former jazz drummer named Hamaas Abdul Khaalis, who had risen through the ranks of the Nation of Islam before feuding with the organization's mercurial chief, Elijah Muhammad, and becoming a spiritual authority to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Like Malcolm X, Khaalis had become sharply critical of the Nation's unorthodox style of Islam. And, like Malcolm X, he paid dearly for his outspokenness: In 1973, followers of the Nation murdered seven Hanafis at their headquarters, including several members of Khaalis's family. When they took hostages in 1977, one of the Hanafis' demands was for the murderers, along with Muhammad Ali and Elijah's son, to be turned over to the group to face justice. They also demanded that the American premiere of Mohammad: Messenger of God--an epic about the life of the prophet Muhammad financed and supported by the Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi--be canceled and the film destroyed. The lives of 149 hostages hung in the balance, and the United States' fledgling counterterrorism forces--as yet untested--would have to respond. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The story has everything from major sports, politics, and religious leaders to murder, kidnapping, and even filmmaking. Yet the reader never gets lost thanks to the way Mufti keeps the story moving and the intrigue just getting higher. Simply as a history book this is amazingly readable and will appeal to even those who normally might refrain from reading history.
This is also a look at both the African American experience in the country as well as the intersection of that community with Islam. Like any religion, local or national forms take on distinctly unique forms from whatever that religion's origins might have been. Just as white Evangelicalism bears little or no resemblance to Christian thought for most of the last two millennium, so too there are some major differences between the Islam of the groups discussed here and much of the religion's history. So only a fool would take this as some kind of "insight" into Islamic beliefs as a whole, or, heaven forbid, even consider presenting it to students as an introduction to Islam. Yes, I saw a short-sighted (to be as polite as possible) alleged educator (hope not, for the sake of those future students) suggest just that. There are many places where this book would contribute to some coursework, but not as an intro to Islam text.
I would highly recommend this to those who might not know very much about this event, and in the process of explaining the background this does serve as a (not 'the') history of African American engagement with Islam. The book is both highly readable and very informative.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley. (