#4 - Enslaved African American Muslims in Antebellum America
Join Dr. Rudolph Bilal Ware and Imam Dawud Walid in part 4 of “Islam & Black America” for a conversation on the history of enslaved African American Muslims in Antebellum America.
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Dr. Rudolph Bilal Ware
Dr. Rudolph Bilal Ware is a historian of Africa and Islam. In 2004, he received his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in African History, African-American History, and Islamic Intellectual History. His research centers on the last thousand years, with a focus on West Africa as well as the Mediterranean lands of Islam and the Atlantic worlds of the African diaspora.
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Imam Dawud Walid
Dawud Walid is currently the Executive Director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) and member of the Imams Council of Michigan. Walid has studied under qualified scholars the disciplines of Arabic grammar and morphology (al-Nahw wa al-Sarf), foundations of Islamic jurisprudence (Usul al-Fiqh), Prophetic narrations (al-Ahadith al-Nabawiyyah) and sciences of the exegesis of the Qur’an (‘Ulum Tafsir al-Qur’an). He previously served as an imam at Masjid Wali Muhammad in Detroit and the Bosnian American Islamic Center in Hamtramck, Michigan. He is the author of the books Futuwwah and Raising Males Into Sacred Manhood, Blackness and Islam, and Towards Sacred Activism as well as co-author of the books Centering Black Narrative: Black Muslim Nobles Among the Early Pious Muslims and Centering Black Narrative: Ahl al-Bayt, Blackness & Africa.
