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    WIG JUSWOIN) SUJULOG VW OL SDILITOd SM cin =) SSN. eine Muslims and US Politics Today: A Defining Moment Edited by Mohammad Hassan Khalil Copyright © 2019 Ilex Foundation All Rights Reserved Published by Ilex Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts and The Center for Hellenic stud Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C, 7 Distributed by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, Englang Production editor: Christopher Dadian Cover design: Joni Godlove Printed in the United States of America On the cover: photo illustration featuring photos from Wikimedia/Creative Commons of state senator Patricia Torres Ray, (then) state representative Ilhan Omar, and (then) state representative Peggy Flanagan leading the Women’s March in St, Paul, Minnesota, January 2017, by Fibonacci Blue (top); Minneapolis City Hall “Eviction Rally,” Black Lives Matter, December 2015, by Tony Webster (center); and Khizr and Ghazala Khan, speaking with Vos's Urdu service in Washington, DC, August 2016, by B, Allen (bottom), Background photo: mobile phone with blurred image of protesters, Shutterstock ID 391401886, Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Khalil, Mohammad Hassan, editor, itle: Muslims and US politics today + it a il ne US politic today: defining moment / edited by Mohammad Description: Boston, Massachusetts : Ilex Fo Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Series: Mizan series | “Distributed by Ha Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England." | tn, i references and index. neigh lads bibigraphicl Identifiers: LCCN 2019016944 | ISBN 97806742. ‘Subjects: LCSH: Muslims--United States, [Mu and government, | Islam and politics--Unite States--Ethnic relations, Classification: LCC E184.M88 M85 2019 | DDC 305,6/970973 LC record available at https://Iecn.loc.gov/2019016044 undation ; Washington, D.c, : Harvard University, 2019, | rvard University Press, 41343 (alk. paper) islims--United States—Politics d States. | United dens Drawing Near to God’s Pleasure: pialogue on the Black Muslim Political Tr al Traditi, the Moral-Ethical Imperatives of a tadition and ‘merican Islam Donna Auston and Sylvia Chan-Malik ican presidency - an election in which Trumy “ hates us” and used the “Muslim ban” as a central eres ponna Auston and Sylvia Chan-Malik engaged in a dialogue regarding ae political orientations of Black American Muslim communities, In their con- versation, the two scholars discussed contemporary Black Muslim political formations and US Muslim politics more broadly, with a focus on matters of race and gender. A continual theme that emerged through the dialogue was how the moral-ethical imperatives of anti-racism, gender justice, and Black liberation have constituted Black Muslim political and religious traditions, and how these traditions are critical to understanding the contemporary dynamics of US Muslim communities and politics. The conversations took place on two separate occasions in early October 2017 and built on earlier conversations that took place at the April 2017 Michigan State University symposium on “Muslims and Contemporary US Politics.” What follows is an edited transcript of their dialogue, in which the two scholars of race, gen- der, and Islam in the United States sought to articulate the contours of a Black Muslim political tradition and the moral-ethical imperatives animat- ing what they view as past, present, and future. . In the first section, “From Which Islam Has Never Been Disentangled,’ Auston and Chan-Malik address the ways Islam is inexorably tied to Black- ness in the US racial order and the ways Blackness is disavowed or elided in the construction of contemporary US Muslim political agendas. In sec- tion two, “How the Women Ge, Islam Goes,” the two scholars turn to the be an + intersections Ways gender shapes US Muslim political formations and eae expan- of race, gender, class, and sexuality are integral to constituting mt) Wve and inclusive visions of “justice” in US Muslim. communities. i ea ‘ection, ‘Drawing Near to God's Pleasure,” the conversation twrM ticulation of a Black Muslim political tradition an‘ * articulated and positioned as @ moral-ethical imperal Politics in the twenty-first century. taosT A YEAR following the election of Donald J, Trump to the Amer A t- d how this tradition may tive for US Muslim. 186 Dorma Aston and Sylvia Chany, “From Which Islam Has Never Been Disentangleg» il Is describ ia Chan-Malik (SCM): Donna, can you ema What are the questions that inform yor American Muslims and Islam? e the impel ur discussions fe Donna Auston (DA): My work begins with the desir tions of racial identity shape religious understan, categories - race and religion - work in concert wit US Muslims’ subjectivities? How do questions of discourse about whether or not Islam is reconci an African American Muslim, | think about these questions differently, top example, assimilation is not a thing that concerns me. As an African Ameri. can, I'm technically a citizen, though a citizen with an aste isk, Thus, while questions of whether or not Muslims are “home” in America, or Islam ig compatible with American values are alwa 's awkward anc roblemation Who produce " Te ip hop, blues, and jazz. These are Blackcontributie™ to American culture, which are heavily inflected by Muslim Participation and presence, by Black social protest and naming practices The Black Mus- lim experience in American culture is so de y eply embedded. So how do you

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