At Their Feet: 50 Black Muslim Elders Share Stories of Faith and Community Life

Authors

Alisa Perkins, Western Michigan UniversityFollow

Department

Comparative Religion

Document Type

Book

Files

Description

AT THEIR FEET is a rare opportunity to both pay homage to, and learn from, one of the most unique communities to ever grace the planet: African-American Muslim Elders born in the 1930s-1950s.

To sit “at the feet” indicates an exchange between student and teacher. Sage and apprentice. Master and disciple.

Inside, you’ll learn and read stories on a variety of life experiences. You’ll read how some of our elders accepted Islam as their way of life on their own in their early teens. You’ll read about experiences traversing Jim Crow. You’ll read about family and business and building communities from the ground up.

The 50 essays within are ripe with secrets and insights that can help the current and future generations usher in new social heights.

AT THEIR FEET is a call to rediscover the powerful age-old practice of learning from elders so that we may illuminate and become the best of humankind.

Call number in WMU's library

BP222 .A82 2022 (Waldo Library WMU Authors Collection, First Floor)

ISBN

9781945873713

Publication Date

2022

Disciplines

Islamic Studies

Comments

Zarinah El-Amin editor, compiler.; Alisa Perkins editor, contributor.; Ayah Rashid editor, contributor.

Recommended Citation

Perkins, Alisa, "At Their Feet: 50 Black Muslim Elders Share Stories of Faith and Community Life" (2022). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. 881.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/881