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Class number:
2973
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Title: Black Islam |
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Department: International Studies |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 15 |
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Current enrollment: 6 |
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Available seats: 9 |
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Start date: Monday, January 22, 2024 |
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End date: Friday, May 10, 2024 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM, MC - 309 |
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Instructor(s): Gunasena, Natassja |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements |
Course Description:
This class considers how Islam and Islamic theology have shaped African and African diasporic communities' resistance to slavery and colonialism, and how, in turn, these communities have brought their experiences of anti-colonial resistance to bear on interpretations of Islamic thought and the practice of Islamic doctrine. We begin by studying the history of what Cedric Robinson called "the Black radical tradition" to draw connections between slave revolts in the Americas and anti-colonial uprisings on the African continent. As we parse these connections, we pay attention to how African and African diasporic peoples have engaged Islamic messianism, Sufist teachings, and other modes of Islamic theology to consistently repudiate European racial ideology and imagine freedom. |