African American Dawah Academy
“The African-American Dawah Academy trains African Americans to understand Islam deeply and apply it effectively to the social, political, economic, and spiritual challenges facing Black communities today.”
Our goal is clear:
To raise a generation of Black Muslims who are knowledgeable, disciplined, economically self sufficient and committed to serving their people while calling them to Islam.
OUR COURSES :
The Farewell Sermon: Islam’s Declaration Against Racism and Its Relevance Today
A deep textual and historical study of the Prophet Muhammad’s ﷺ Farewell Sermon and its powerful rejection of racial superiority. Students explore its commands for justice and equality and how to apply these principles to modern issues such as police brutality, mass incarceration, and community healing in Black America.
Malcolm X: From Nation of Islam to Sunni Orthodoxy and Global Vision
A comprehensive examination of Malcolm X’s spiritual and intellectual evolution, his critique of white supremacy, and his final commitment to Sunni Islam as a tool for Black liberation and international solidarity.
Challenging Afrocentric Critiques of Islam
A rigorous scholarly response to common Afrocentric claims about Islam, Africa, the trans-Saharan trade, and alleged historical anti-Blackness. Students gain historical evidence, primary sources, and confident frameworks for addressing these critiques.
The Bahia Slave Rebellion (1835): Islam as Revolution in the Americas
In-depth study of the largest urban slave revolt in the Americas, led by Muslim scholars during Ramadan. The course examines Islamic motivation, strategy, organization, and the connection between West African jihads and resistance in the New World.
Enslaved Muslim Scholars in America: Omar ibn Said, Ayuuba Diallo, and the Hidden Intellectual Tradition
This course explores the remarkable lives and writings of highly educated West African Muslim scholars who were enslaved in North America and continued to preserve Islamic knowledge under extreme oppression.
Taught by Professor Shareef Muhammad
We are an action-based and service-based institute. Our focus at the African-American Dawah Academy is building real knowledge, discipline, and solutions that uplift Black people. We combine serious Islamic scholarship with practical training so students can turn faith into tangible results with stronger families, safer neighborhoods, economic self-reliance, justice work, and spiritual revival.
At the African-American Dawah Academy, dawah means service in action. We study history, theology, and strategy not for theory, but to equip African-Americans confront mass incarceration, food insecurity, youth violence, economic dispossession, and identity crises with Islamic principles and organized effort.
