Word: islam
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Making Waves: Even when he's out of town, ubiquitous Du Bois Professor of the Humaities HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. can't stay out of the headlines. Gates drew fire from local Nation of Islam leaders for a New York Times op-ed piece, in which he discussed anti-Semitism among Black leaders...
Making Waves: Even when he's out of town, ubiquitous Du Bois Professor of the Humaities HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. can't stay out of the headlines. Gates drew fire from local Nation of Islam leaders for a New York Times op-ed piece, in which he discussed anti-Semitism among Black leaders...
Minister Don Muhammad, the leader of the Nation of Islam in Boston, spoke on local radio Sunday to criticize an editorial by Gates. In the piece, which ran on a full page of The New York Times last week, Gates blasted the "demagogues and pseudo-scholars" who he said preach anti-Semitism. He singled out a new book by Nation of Islam researchers, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Vol. 1, as "the Bible" of a new isolationist movement...
...speech on WILD, an urban contemporary music station, Muhammad defended the book and called for a televised debate between one of Gates' academic sources and Nation of Islam researchers...
Partly, at least, this is because it gives such sharp vignettes of cultural crossing. Islam the Destroyer is a myth; in fact, much of what we know of classical Greek thought was preserved by Arab scholars, without whose efforts we would know little or nothing of Aristotle. In science, Europe until the 14th century was illiterate compared with the Arab world, and a group of exquisitely made brass instruments in this show reminds one that the universal astrolabe was invented in al-Andalus around...