The Black Dawah Network exists to convey the intellectual proofs of Islam to Black America. Through the Black Dawah Academy, we provide rigorous courses of study that arm our people with these proofs: the evidences, the history, and the scholarly grounding to know what they believe, and why.
Islam, Afrocentrism and the Arab Slave Trade Myth
A rigorous five-module course examining the intellectual origins of the conscious community’s case against Islam, testing its claims against the historical record, and recovering the scholarly tradition of Black Muslim thought.
Faculty — Professor Shareef Muhammad
Fully online · Asynchronous and on-demand · Study at your own pace
Upon completing this course, the student will be able to trace the colonial genealogy of the anti-Islamic narrative; to interrogate the “Arab slave trade” thesis through documented history rather than slogan; to distinguish the indigenization of Islam in Africa from the myth of conquest; to evaluate the methodological flaws of Afrocentric historiography; and to articulate Islam as a coherent tradition of Black liberation. The five modules proceed by design — the first four dismantle, and the fifth builds. The Academy’s classes are fully online, asynchronous, and on-demand, so you may begin at once and study at your own pace.
Register to matriculate
Enrollment is free. Register to unlock the five modules. Your written work is saved as you go; each essay is read and graded by the faculty, and upon passing all five you are awarded the Academy’s Certificate of Completion.
Conveying the intellectual proofs of Islam to Black America.
The Certificate of Completion
Complete every module and submit each written assessment. Your essays are read and graded by the faculty; upon passing all five, your Certificate of Completion is issued and sent to you.
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