Tag: history
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The Three Faces of Modern Salafism and Their Impact on Black American Muslim Life, Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ، وَالصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَبَعْد Modern Salafism did not enter Black American Muslim life as a single, unified ideology. It arrived as a current, as a wave if you will. A global religious stream shaped by oil wealth, geopolitics, missionary institutions, and the intellectual anxieties of the modern Muslim…
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Beyond Skin, Beyond Wounds: Why Black American Muslims Must Reject ‘Racial Islam’, by Imam Luqman Ahmad
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ، وَالصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَبَعْد The lived reality of Black American Muslims includes a distinct history, a unique set of social pressures, and a long record of struggle inside and outside the Muslim community. These realities deserve to be named honestly. They shape how we build…
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How Ignorance of Fiqh and the Absence of a Madhhab Damages Black Muslim Families in Divorce, Imam Luqman Ahmad
A lot of Muslims believe that ignorance of religion is a trivial matter that has no consequences. Nothing can be further from the truth. Divorce is one of the most legally detailed areas of the sharia, designed to protect families from chaos, prevent injustice, and ensure that separation does not destroy the rights of spouses or children. When…
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Madhhabs as Instruments of Unity, Order, and Civilizational Cohesion. By Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
Across fourteen centuries of Islamic history, no institution has done more to unify diverse peoples, stabilize communities, and create civilizational coherence than the madhhab. Whether in Baghdad or Timbuktu, Cairo or Aceh, Damascus or Zanzibar, Muslims who shared no language, no ethnicity, no political system, and no cultural background could still pray together, marry each…
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Do Black American Muslims Need Their Own Madhhab? Imam Luqman Ahmad
While a new madhhab is unnecessary, there is a genuine need for a contextualized fiqh discourse rooted in the lived experiences of Black American Muslims.
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US Attack on Iran to Effect Regime Change? Is it good policy? Is it a Wise Use of Our Tax Dollars? Imam Luqman Ahmad
I’m not anexpert on Iran, an expert on military strategy, nor an expert on US foreign policy. In fact, I’ve never been to Iran, never been in the military, and only know about US policy what I read on the internet, and hear out of the President’s mouth on T.V. However, based on what I…
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A Short History of the Darul Islam Movement in America
The American Muslim group Darul Islam (also known as the Dar-ul-Islam Movement or simply “the Dar”) was a significant and influential grassroots movement founded by African American converts to Sunni Islam in the early 1960s. Emerging from the social upheaval of the era, it sought to establish a self-governing urban community that lived according to…
Imam Luqman Ahmad Mosque Without Borders 