Black Muslim Freedom Dreams

""Samiha Rahman tells the extraordinary story of how generations of African American youth found community, care, spiritual renewal, and a radical praxis dedicated to collective liberation in an ancient Senegalese city. Poignant, beautiful, this book brings to light Islam's powerful place in the Black Radical Tradition.""--Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times ""An exciting addition to the literature on African American Muslims that highlights Tijani Sufi transnational educational networks between the U.S. and Senegal. Grounded in extensive ethnographic engagement with Black American Tijanis, Rahman's compelling study illuminates how collective care and relational piety undergird the Black Muslim radical quest for spiritual and material liberation of young people and their parents in Medina Baye's African American Islamic Institute.""--Judith Weisenfeld, Princeton University ""Like its subjects, Black Muslim Freedom Dreams breathes new possibilities into our understandings of relationships between Africa and its diasporas. Well-written and drawing on extensive multi-sited research, Rahman makes a truly original contribution that demonstrates how practices of care, rooted equally in Muslim cosmologies and the Black Radical Tradition, are strategies of freedom from racial subjugation on both sides of the Atlantic. I can't wait to cite it!""--Su'ad Abdul Khabeer, scholar-artist-activist and author of Muslim Cool