Random Lamentations, Protest Chants, and Affirmations: Selected Works from a Blackfemale Muslim Muslimfemale Black
(1976-2016) is an offering of poems that speak to the unique and complex experiences of a Black Muslim woman living in inner city America over the last 40 years.
The lives of Muslim women who live in urban America are rarely documented in literature. Their experiences are assumed to be similar to their Middle Eastern, Asian, and African sisters, even though the legacy of slavery and social injustice in America informs their daily lives. This book will, hopefully, allow readers to see black Muslim women, in particular, and Muslim women, in general, through a clearer window.
About the Author
C. Islaah Abd'al-Rahim is a Baltimore-born and raised, Muslim woman writer, educator, and public speaker. Over the past four decades, she has experienced life in inner city America through the triple lens of being black, being female, and being a hijaab-wearing Muslim in society that encourages women to demonstrate their freedom through dress.
"Sister Islaah" has served her community by teaching Islaamic Studies, by working on philanthropic projects, and by contributing to educational programs on the elementary to graduate school levels. Currently, she provides free or low-cost educational support to parents, home-schoolers, non-profits, or small private schools.
Her commitment to social change, and her desire to chronicle the experiences of blacks and Muslims living in inner city America is reflected in her writings. This is her first published book of poems. She is also the author of The Book of Islaamic Lists (Ruya Press).
