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Ep. 80: Slavery and Islam Part 3: Racial Consequences & Theological Considerations - Dawud Walid
1 hour 27 minutes Posted Aug 26, 2024 at 6:56 pm.
Introduction
The Conflation of Slavery and Anti-Blackness
Racialization in Language During the Abbasids & The Zanj Rebellion
The Fabrication of Anti-Black Narrations
Deployment of Racially-Specific Language
Blackness and Arabness
A Story of Imam Ali ibn Musa al-Rida
Effects of Slavery on Fomenting Anti-Blackness
Anti-Blackness and Representation
Scholars Fighting Anti-Blackness and Race-Based Slavery
Revisiting the "Arab Slave Trade"
Slavery to God and Freedom
Qur'anic Parables of the Slave and Free
Egalitarianism Vs. Social Hierarchy in the Qur'an
Modern-Day Slaves
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Show notes
In part 3 of our series on slavery, Imam Dawud Walid considers the aftereffects of slavery on our current condition, its historical role in contributing to anti-blackness in the community today, and how it affects our understanding of Qur'anic language and theological concepts such as 'ubudiyyah (being a slave to God).
Imam Dawud Walid is the Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) and member of the Imams Council of Michigan. He is the author of several books, including Blackness and Islam, Towards Sacred Activism, and Centering Black Narrative: Black Muslim Nobles Among the Early Pious Muslims.
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