Beyond Bilal: Black History In Islam

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These are people that if you look a certain way and enter into certain communities and spaces, you will be racialised as being Black and that comes with prejudices and discriminations and anti-Blackness, which is a global phenomenon as we see ourselves in a Eurocentric monoculture that is established in white supremacy. Black Panther event at Blackbird Leys Community Centre that’s part of the Oxford Science and Ideas Festival – 22 October.

Understanding Women’s Activism in Iran Through Cinema – A special screening of Mahshad Afshar’s documentary Women on Both Sides of the Camera followed by a discussion with the director.There are many figures in the Qur’an that if they were alive today, they would be racialised as being Black because their physical descriptions are exactly like the victims of anti-Blackness today.

Even though he was free within a year of becoming Muslim, in Muhammad by Martin Lings for example, he is constantly talked about as a slave because there is a subliminal link between Blackness and slavehood. I’ve messaged the author a few times on Instagram and commented, but he’s removed my comments and ignored my messages. We thought there’s no better time than in Black History Month to get to know the Black Sahaba of the Prophet (saw) who made an immense contribution to our tradition and are held in high esteem. Us discussing anti-Blackness now is not a modern issue and it cannot be a Marxist agenda because before Karl Marx was even born, there were over 15 books written tackling ant-Blackness in the Muslim community from a Qur’anic and Sunnah perspective.Mustafa also holds an MA in Translation from SOAS, University of London, specializing in Arabic and Islamic texts. There is no superiority of an Arab over a non-Arab, or of a non-Arab over an Arab, and no superiority of a white person over a black person or of a black person over a white person, except on the basis of personal piety and righteousness. Muslim women have always been at the forefront of the preservation and furthering of the deen whether that be as teachers, spiritual guides or mothers.

Dasturzada Dr Jal Pavry Memorial Lectures and Race Equality in STEMM panel on 19 October– joint event with MPLS and MSD divisions. Spanning a thousand years of history–and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania–Rudolph Ware documents the profound significance of Qur’an schools for West African Muslim communities.Such schools peacefully brought Islam to much of the region, becoming striking symbols of Muslim identity.