Author
Taymullah Abdur-Rahman Abdur-Rahman
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Publisher
1517 Media
Published
February 2024
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Hardcover
Publisher
1517 Media
Published
February 2024
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American Imam
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Imam Taymullah Abdur-Rahman's incredible life story weaves the contemporary Black American experience with the Black Muslim American experience and emphasizes the role of interreligious dialogue in the fight for abolition and justice.
By the time he was twelve, Taymullah Abdur-Rahman (born Tyrone Sutton) was a rising pop star, recruited as part of the R&B group Perfect Gentlemen, with a top-ten hit, national teen magazine covers, and an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. However, after his music career peaked, Abdur-Rahman found himself back home, with little to show for his success. He quickly became a teen father struggling to survive in Roxbury, MA. Seeing Islam as a way out of his hard-scrabble environment, he happily converted. Soon he was working in a maximum-security prison as a Muslim chaplain, where he became zealously focused on saving souls instead of understanding the outside forces that bring men to prison.
Later, in his work as the first paid Muslim chaplain at Harvard, Abdur-Rahman began to seek counsel outside of Islam, engaging with Jewish and Christian mentors who opened his eyes to the gifts of interreligious dialogue and helped lead him to what he was truly seeking: enlightenment. With this new framework, he returned to working with prisoners and clearly saw the cyclical effects of systemic racism that keep Black and brown people locked up and without support in America today. A sweeping narrative, American Imam voices the contemporary concerns of Black Muslim Americans in the shadow of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, in the aftermath of 9/11, and in light of the fights for social justice and prison abolition. Abdur-Rahman's story sounds an indelible rallying cry for understanding across race, religion, and cultural divides.
Author
Taymullah Abdur-Rahman Abdur-Rahman
Book Format
Hardcover
Publisher
1517 Media
Published
February 2024
Weight
318g
Dimensions
147 x 223 x 22 mm
ISBN
9781506489285
ISBN-10
1506489281
Eden Code
6251009
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Author/Creator: Taymullah Abdur-Rahman Abdur-Rahman
ISBN: 9781506489285
Publisher: 1517 Media
Release Date: February 2024
Weight: 318g
Dimensions: 147 x 223 x 22 mm
Eden Code: 6251009