Black Muslim Revolutions: From the Masjid to the World: Dr. Su'ad Abdul Khabeer and Dr. Rasul Miller

On March 29th, GISC hosted Dr. Su'ad Abdul Khabeer and Dr. Rasul Miller for a lecture on Black Muslim Revolutions: From the Masjid to the World, moderated by Dr. Aliyah Khan.
Meet the speakers:
Dr. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer is a scholar, artist, activist, and author of Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States (2016). In her most recent work, Umi’s Archive, Dr. Abdul Khabeer examines the intersections of official history and the untold stories of Black women and Black Muslims through the lens of her mother’s life. Umi means mother in Arabic, and Dr. Abdul Khabeer examines her mother’s photographic and literary archives, and so the digital exhibition series is Umi's Archive. The project sees everyday Black women as people who know things we all need to know.
Dr. Rasul Miller's work explores the histories of Black Muslim communities in the Atlantic world, Black radicalism and its impact on social and cultural movements in the twentieth century U.S., Black internationalism, and West African intellectual history. Dr. Miller's current book project, Black World Revelation: Islam, Race and Radical Internationalism in New York City from 1930 - 1990, examines the Black internationalist origins of early twentieth-century Black orthodox Muslim congregations in and around New York City, and the cultural and political orientations that characterized subsequent communities of Black Muslims in the U.S. who built robust, transnational networks as they actively engaged traditions and communities of Muslims on the African continent.
Dr. Aliyah Khan is associate professor in the U-M Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and the Department of English Language and Literature. She is also Director of the Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC) at the International Institute. Dr. Khan specializes in postcolonial Caribbean literature and the contemporary literature of the Muslim and Islamic worlds, with a particular focus on the intersections of race, gender, and Islam in the hemispheric Americas, including in immigrant communities in North America. She has also presented and taught widely in the field of Muslim representation in comics and graphic novels, and is on the editorial board of Bloombsbury Critical Guides in Comics Studies.
This series is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center, and cosponsored by American Culture, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the African Studies Center, the LSA Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and the International Institute. Also brought to you by The Maydan at GMU, and Muslim Studies Program at MSU.
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