Metaphysical Africa: Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Introduction: “The Most Dynamic Pamphlets in History”

1. “I Am the Raisin-Headed Slave”: The Nubian Ahl al-Bayt, Sudanese Mahdiyya, and Global Blackness as Islamic Revival

2. Heralds of the Reformer: Visions of Blackamerican Muslim History

3. “The Covenant Is Complete in Me”: Nubian Islamic Hebraism and the Religion of Abraham

4. Between Zion and Mecca: Bilal as Islamic and Hebrew

5. The Sudan Is the Heart Chakra: The AAC/NIH as Sufi Tariqa

6. Islam Is Hotep: Ansar Egyptosophy

7. The Pyramidal Kaʿba: Malachi Z. York and the Nuwaubian Turn

8. Nuwaubian Ether: Ansar Legacies in Hip-Hop

Coda: The View from Illyuwn

Notes

Bibliography

Index