Why I am a Five Percenter

Michael Muhammad Knight (Michael Muhammad Knight)

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Jeremy P Tarcher
13 October 2011

Islam

A thoughtful, insider view of The Five Percenters-a deeply

complex and misunderstood community whose ideas and symbols influenced

the rise of hip-hop. Misrepresented in the media as a black parallel to the Hell's

Angels, portrayed as everything from a vicious street gang to quasi- Islamic revolutionaries, The Five Percenters are a movement that began

as a breakaway sect from the Nation of Islam (NOI) in 1960s Harlem and

went on to impact the formation of hip-hop. References to Five Percent

language and ideas are found in the lyrics of wide-ranging artists,

such as Nas, Rakim, the Wu-Tang Clan, and even Jay-Z.

The Five Percenters are denounced by white America as racists, and

orthodox Islam as heretics, for teaching that the black man is Allah.

Michael Muhammad Knight (""the Hunter S. Thompson of Islamic literature""

-The Guardian) has engaged this culture as both white and Muslim; and

over the course of his relationship with The Five Percenters, his

personal position changed from that of an outsider to an accepted

participant with his own initiatory name (Azreal Wisdom). This has

given him an intimate perch from which to understand and examine the

controversial doctrines of this influential movement. In Why I Am a

Five Percenter, Knight strips away years of sensationalism to offer

a serious encounter with Five Percenter thought.

Encoded within Five Percent culture is a profound critique of

organized religion, from which the movement derives its name- Only Five

Percent can act as ""poor righteous teachers"" against the evil Ten

Percent, the power structure which uses religion to deceive the Eighty- Five Percent, the ""deaf, dumb, and blind"" masses. Questioning his own

relationship to the Five Percent, Knight directly confronts the

community's most difficult teachings. In Why I Am a Five

Percenter, Knight not only illuminates a thought system that must

appear bizarre to outsiders, but he also brilliantly dissects the very

issues of""insiders"" and ""outsiders,"" territory and ownership, as they

relate to religion and privilege, and to our conditioned ideas about

race.

By: Michael Muhammad Knight (Michael Muhammad Knight)
Imprint: Jeremy P Tarcher
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 23mm
ISBN: 9781585428687
ISBN 10: 158542868X
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 13 October 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Inactive

Michael Muhammad Knight has studied Islam at a madrassa in Pakistan, the Allah School in Harlem, and Harvard University. His work has been censored, boycotted, confiscated, and threatened with legal action. This is his seventh book.

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