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Malcolm X: From Political Eschatology to Religious Revolutionary Edited by Dustin J. Byrd, Olivet College, USA and Seyed Javad Miri, Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Iran Paperback: 371 pages Publisher: Brill, 2016 Language: English Format: Harback/E-Book ISBN-13: 9789004308671 E-ISBN:9789004308688 For information on ordering, please click here.

2015 marks the 50th anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination in Harlem, New York. Spurred by the commitment to continue the critical work that Malcolm X began, the scholars represented in the book have analysed the enduring significance of Malcolm X’s life, work and religious philosophy.

Edited by Dustin J. Byrd and Seyed Javad Miri, Malcolm X: From Political Eschatology to Religious Revolutionary, represents an important investigation into the religious and political philosophy of one of the most important African-American and Muslim thinkers of the 20th century. Thirteen scholars from six countries and various academic disciplines have contributed to our understanding of why Malcolm X is still important fifty years after his death.

Contributors are: Syed Farid Alatas, Dustin J. Byrd, Bethany Beyyette, Louis A. DeCaro, Stephen C. Ferguson, William David Hart, John H. McClendon, Seyed Javad Miri, John Andrew Morrow, Emin Poljarevic, Rudolf J. Siebert, Nuri Tinaz and Yolanda Van Tilborgh.

Readership

All interested in the history and thought of Malcolm X, Civil Rights/Human Rights movements of the 1960’s, African-American history and Islam in America. This book is geared towards upper-level undergraduates, graduates and specialists.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction
Dustin J. Byrd and Seyed Javad Miri

Malcolm X as Religious Peripatetic
William David Hart

On the Dialectical Evolution of Malcolm X’s Anti-Capitalist Critique: Interrogating His Political Philosophy of Black Nationalism
John H. McClendon III and Stephen C. Ferguson II

Malcolm X and Revolutionary Religion: Christianity, Islam and their Emancipatory Potentials
Dustin J. Byrd

Malcolm X and the Meccan Epistle
Seyed Javad

Malcolm X - a Martyr of Freedom
Rudolf J. Siebert

“The Enemy of My Enemy”: Malcolm X and the Legacy of John Brown
Louis A. DeCaro, Jr.

Malcolm X, Alatas and Critical Theory
Syed Farid Alatas

Malcolm X: Message to Humanity
John Andrew Morrow

Malik al-Shabazz’s Practice of Self-Liberation
Emin Poljarevic

From Malcolm X to Generation Y: The African American Muslim Community after 1965
Bethany Beyyette

From Hell to Heaven: The Malcolm X Narrative of Muslim Artists. The Meaning of his Life in Relation to the Doctrine of Predestination for British and American Performing Artists in the 21th Century
Yolanda van Tilborgh 

Rationalization of Malcolm X’s Religious Understandings, Political Perspectives and Organizational Objectives
Nuri Tinaz

Index