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In the Name of Elijah Muhammad: Louis Farrakhan and The Nation of Islam (C. Eric Lincoln Series on the Black Experience)
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by Mattias Gardell and Mattias Gardell
Sales Rank: 760956
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Cover Type: Paperback with 496 pages
Published by: Duke University Press December 1996
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0822318458
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0822318453
Book Dimensions:
9 x 6 x 1.4 inches
Weighs: 1.8 pounds
Product Review
“Despite the emotional lockdown that has effectively blocked qualitative discourse on the Nation of Islam (NOI), Mattias Gardell has managed to step back from the fray on some levels and write a comprehensive history of the NOI. . . . Based on firsthand interviews and writings of leading spokespersons, In the Name of Elijah Muhammad serves as a resource to move from a place of emotionally fueled ignorance to contextualized cognition. The book presents the philosophy of Black Muslims and a look at the Black American experience . . . [and] is an great resource for scholars of religion, African American history, psychology, and sociology. It opens windows onto the Nation heretofore closed to public view.”
--C. S’thembile West, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Product Description
In the Name of Elijah Muhammad tells the story of the Nation of Islam—its rise in northern inner-city ghettos during the Great Depression through its decline following the death of Elijah Muhammad in 1975 to its rejuvenation under the leadership of Louis Farrakhan. Mattias Gardell sets this story within the context of African American social history, the legacy of black nationalism, and the long but hidden Islamic presence in North America. He presents with insight and balance a detailed view of one of the most controversial yet least explored organizations in the United States—and its current leader.
Beginning with Master Farad Muhammad, believed to be God in Person, Gardell looks at the origins of the Nation. His research on the period of Elijah Muhammad’s long leadership draws on previously unreleased FBI files that reveal a clear picture of the bureau’s attempts to neutralize the Nation of Islam. In addition, they shed new light on the circumstances surrounding the murder of Malcolm X. With the main part of the book focused on the fortunes of the Nation after Elijah Muhammad’s death, Gardell then turns to the figure of Minister Farrakhan. From his emergence as the dominant voice of the radical black Islamic community to his leadership of the Million Man March, Farrakhan has often been portrayed as a demagogue, bigot, racist, and anti-Semite. Gardell balances the media’s view of the Nation and Farrakhan with the Nation’s own views and with the perspectives of the black community in which the organization actively works. His investigation, based on field research, taped lectures, and interviews, leads to the fullest account yet of the Nation of Islam’s ideology and theology, and its complicated relations with mainstream Islam, the black church, the Jewish community, extremist white nationalists, and the urban culture of black American youth, particularly the hip-hop movement and gangs.
Reader Reviews
Gardells impressive research results in a far richer and more subtle account of the NOI and Farrakhan. Immersing himself in the writings of the movement and in much else related to it (such as its connections to the FBI, Muammar al-Qadhdhafi, and rap musicians) he has produced an impressively thorough account. The study usefully covers other NOI branches, including the Lost Found Nation of Islam, the Five Percent Nation of Islam, and the Ansaaru Allah Community. Heres where to find out about the NOIs tentative moves toward mainstream Islam, its connections to American neo-Nazis, and its challenge to the black Christian churches. Gardells book is highly unusual in one way: although the author has many strange and tendentious ideas (that Reagan planned for a war on Libya in 1986, that Farrakhan is not an anti-Semite, that a mistress of Elijah Muhammads was his Islamic wife, that the 1992 Rodney King riots were the bloodiest uprising of the twentieth century), he does not slant the evidence but scrupulously offers information that directly disproves his own arguments. Most readers of In the Name of Elijah Muhammad will want to read the study for its facts while keeping a distance from Gardells conclusions. Middle East Quarterly, March 1997
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