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book presents the legacies of Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X in a light which
demands a fresh reading of the implications for Pan-Africanism of Islam
being the fastest moving political and spiritual shift amongst black people
in Europe and the Americas, while Africa already stands out as the only
continent in the world boasting a majority of Muslims.
The author writes from the vantage point of his own African-Caribbean background and 10 years involvement at the cutting edge of the African-Islamic phenomenon in order to take us on an excursion around the likes of Shakespeare's Othello, Uthman dan Fodio, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Cheikh Anta Diop which confronts us with genuinely challenging historical, economic and spiritual perspectives while advancing new foundations for global African collaboration. The very fact that this book has emerged from the contemporary heart of the black experience, combining the weight of true spiritual wisdom and profound analytical insight with a genuinely radical programme of action, stands forth as the strongest argument yet that there is nothing to fear and everything to gain from the growth within our community of the kind of Muslims it describes. Excerpts from the Book |
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| In this unique booklet the League of the Black Stone launches an ambitious 'neo-Garveyite' programme of global political and economic alliance which calls upon African peoples world-wide to recognise the necessity to go beyond the marks left by Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X by extending upon their respective legacies. According to the incisive new analysis the book presents, this will only be achieved by confronting simultaneously the economic challenge presented by the supranational financial mechanisms of usury and paper money, and the political challenge of unlocking the devastating politico-economic potentialities latent within genuine Islam. It is in this book that we are first introduced to the eleven Global Objectives of the New African Global Alliance (NAGA). | |
| Is Ralston X to be known as a Muslim activist, a black nationalist, a spiritual sufi or a Philosopher. This book gives his views on politics, spirituality, America, Islam, black power and perhaps the clearest understanding ever of his former contemporary and colleague Malcolm X. On hearing such clarity one is forced to ask if such a man really exists and is really living in self-emposed exile between Southern Spain and West Africa. | |
| The Handbook on Islam is one of the clearest and most comprehensive expositions of the fundamental sciences of the Life-Transaction (Deen) of Islam available in the English language. Originally written by Shaykh ÔUthman dan Fodio, the Islamic scholar and spiritual leader of the heroic jihad which founded the immense Sokoto Caliphate of West Africa in the early part of the 19th century, Aisha BewleyÕs translation manages to preserve the sense of immediacy, clarity and accessibility which is as much of a safe haven today in the vast jungle of excessive preoccupation with competing and conflicting detail, as it must have been in its original setting faced with the confusions of war and the urgent need to preserve the purity of the Deen for the common Muslims. This new edition has also been further enhanced by the incorporation into the text of Shaykh ÔUthmanÕs well known ÔBook of Important PointsÕ pertaining to essential matters of fiqh arising out of the realities of engagement with the enemy. | |
| This book was written to answer the question "How" in terms of putting into practice the proper restoration of Zakat and the re-introduction of the Gold Dinar as a currency amongst the Muslims. From the individula, to the communities, the charities, the "islamic' banks, the Ulema, it is made clear that everyone has a meaningful and practical role to play. It is currently published as the second half of Zakat, Raising a fallen Pillar. | |
| This modern classic focuses on the actions of the first three generations of the salafi Muslims of Madinah Ð the madhdhab of Madina. For many this book will open up a new world of understanding Islam the way the Companions understood it. | |
| Translated by Aisha Bewley The Publication of this great du'a known as "The sword of Ibn Nasir" has been undertake in response to the desire of Shaykh Abdalqadir as-sufi that its collective recitation should be revived once more across the Muslim Ummah as a proven means of calling upon Allah's Generosity, and overcoming the enemies of the Deen. | |
| The clearest indication yet that Zakat, a pillar of the deen, is for the most part not being either collected or distributed properly. It is the non-collection of Zakat that keeps the Muslims weak and its proper collection will begin to make the Muslims strong again. The second part of the book entitled: The Gold Dinar and the Islamic Money System, gives a clear and practical guide to beginning the process in earnest. | |