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"ALIM is dedicated to empowering Muslims through
education. ALIM provides substantive knowledge in all
relevant aspects of Islamic Sciences but goes beyond
these basic building blocks and teaches critical thinking
intertwined with the elements of true Muslim character
as applied to these subjects. This leads to basic Islamic
Literacy which allows for the development of empowered
Muslims through meaningful discourse and true intellectual
and spiritual development."
Latest Happenings:
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ALIM is currently seeking qualified
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ALIM
Summer Program

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July
12th, 2009 through August 8th, 2009 |
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Madonna
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Livonia,
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Imâm
W. D. Mohammed
and
The Third
Resurrection
(c)2008 Sherman Abd al-Hakim Jackson
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The passing of Imam W.D. Mohammed, may God have
mercy upon him and grant him Paradise, has brought
the Blackamerican Muslim community face to face
with a reality that it has been more comfortable
with ignoring than coming to terms with. Imâm
Mohammed’s death has signaled the end of the
era of charismatic leadership in which the rank
and file can look to a single leader to settle all
major questions and chart the Community’s
course for the future. |
Rather than being decided by a single voice, that
future will have to be negotiated by the collective
understandings and perspectives of the Community’s
learned. This implies, of course, general agreement
on who is learned and what the rules of engagement are.
If the criterion is set too high, it will marginalize
valuable voices and confirm an already widespread distrust
of religious knowledge and those who claim to represent
it. If it is set too low, it will open the Community
to the ravages and abuses of those who think that the
role of religion is to sanction their and or the dominant
culture’s every undisciplined whim and passion...
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