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An engaging examination of the religious and political philosophy of one of the most important African-American thinkers of the 20th-century
List of contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
Dustin J. Byrd and Seyed Javad Miri
Malcolm X as Religious Peripatetic
William David Hart
On the Dialectical Evolution of Malcolm X’s Anti-Capitalist Critique: Interrogating His Political Philosophy of Black Nationalism
John H. McClendon III and Stephen C. Ferguson II
Malcolm X and Revolutionary Religion: Christianity, Islam and their Emancipatory Potentials
Dustin J. Byrd
Malcolm X and the Meccan Epistle
Seyed Javad
Malcolm X - a Martyr of Freedom
Rudolf J. Siebert
“The Enemy of My Enemy”: Malcolm X and the Legacy of John Brown
Louis A. DeCaro, Jr.
Malcolm X, Alatas and Critical Theory
Syed Farid Alatas
Malcolm X: Message to Humanity
John Andrew Morrow
Malik al-Shabazz’s Practice of Self-Liberation
Emin Poljarevic
From Malcolm X to Generation Y: The African American Muslim Community after 1965
Bethany Beyyette
From Hell to Heaven: The Malcolm X Narrative of Muslim Artists. The Meaning of his Life in Relation to the Doctrine of Predestination for British and American Performing Artists in the 21th Century
Yolanda van Tilborgh
Rationalization of Malcolm X’s Religious Understandings, Political Perspectives and Organizational Objectives
Nuri Tinaz
Index
About the author
Dustin J. Byrd, Ph.D. (2016), Michigan State University, is Professor of Humanities at Olivet College, where he teaches religion, philosophy and Arabic. He has published monographs and articles on both Islam and Critical Theory, including Ayatollah Khomeini and the Anatomy of the Islamic Revolution in Iran: Toward a Theory of Prophetic Charisma (University Press of America, 2011) and A Critique of Ayn Rand’s Philosophy of Religion: The Gospel According to John Galt (Lexington Books, 2015).
Seyed Javad Miri, Ph.D. (2002), Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies, is Professor of Sociology and History of Religions at that Institute in Tehran. He has published more than 45 books and 100 articles on various issues related to philosophy, religion and sociology including Islamism and Post-Islamism (University Press of America, 2014).
Summary
An engaging examination of the religious and political philosophy of one of the most important African-American thinkers of the 20th-century
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