Black Muslim brilliance: Confronting antiblackness and Islamophobia through transnational educational migration

Rahman, Samiha

doi:10.1080/03626784.2020.1831368

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“…They recalled that Shaykh Hassan characterized his decision to allocate his own resources to ensure quality education for African Americans as a form of reparations owed to them by their African sisters and brothers. Thus, Shaykh Hassan's diasporic consciousness enabled a predominantly working-class community to participate in international travel and study abroad, opportunities that were often inaccessible to economically marginalized Black people in urban USA (Rahman 2021).…”

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From American to Cisse: Sufism and the remaking of diasporic ties across the Atlantic

Rahman

2023

Africa

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Since the 1980s, hundreds of predominantly working-class African-American Muslims have travelled or relocated to the rural yet renowned city of Medina Baye, Senegal. They were invited there by Shaykh Hassan Cisse, a Senegalese Islamic scholar and leader in the Tijani tariqa (Sufi order). This article focuses on the experiences of African-American and fellow diaspora Black Muslims living and learning with African Muslims in the Tijani hub of Medina Baye. It interrogates the assumptions, expectations and misunderstandings that characterize relationships between the two groups. I argue that, as members of the Tijani tariqa, diaspora Black disciples become integrated within the local system of collective care modelled by African disciples. Complicating analyses of African–diasporic exchanges that tend to differentiate and hierarchize the interconnected economic hardships facing diaspora Black and continental African communities, I argue that the relationship between these groups illustrates the role of Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse’s branch of the Tijani tariqa as a counterhegemonic social movement offering new paradigms of social and economic reciprocity that enable Black Muslims on both sides of the Atlantic to mitigate the contemporary impacts of racial capitalism and global apartheid.

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From American to Cisse: Sufism and the remaking of diasporic ties across the Atlantic

Rahman

2023

Africa

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“…Based on the Arabic‐based greeting, the hashtag offers a glimpse into the digitized, global life‐worlds of Muslims through curated images of smiling families and friends across platforms. For a generation that grew up with pervasive anti‐Muslim racism in their schools, in the media, and in the government (Alsultany 2012; Khabeer 2016; Rahman 2020), #EidMubarak constitutes a celebratory, global, racially, and ethnically diverse Muslim counterpublic in the otherwise “white public spaces” of mainstream social media (Hill 1998; Warner 2002).…”

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#BlackOutEid: Resisting Anti‐Blackness in Digital Muslim Life

Durrani

2021

J Linguistic Anthropol

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Black Muslim brilliance: Confronting antiblackness and Islamophobia through transnational educational migration

Cited by 2 publications

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From American to Cisse: Sufism and the remaking of diasporic ties across the Atlantic

From American to Cisse: Sufism and the remaking of diasporic ties across the Atlantic

#BlackOutEid: Resisting Anti‐Blackness in Digital Muslim Life

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