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Why I am a Five Percenter
- Title
- Why I am a Five Percenter / Michael Muhammad Knight.
- Author
- Knight, Michael Muhammad.
- Publication
- New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, [2011]
- ©2011
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Details
- Description
- 293 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- The Five Percenters are denounced by white America as racists, and orthodox Islam as heretics. Encoded within Five Percent culture is a profound critique of organized religion, from which the movement derives its name: only Five Percent can act as "poor righteous teachers" against the evil Ten Percent, the power structure which uses religion to deceive the Eighty-Five Percent, the "deaf, dumb, and blind" masses. Questioning his own relationship to the Five Percent, Knight directly confronts the community's most difficult teachings.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-285) and index.
- Contents
- Devil in deep space : the birth of Azreal wisdom -- Kill all the white men -- Wonderbread gods -- Elijah Muhammad vs. Marshall Mathers -- Power and refinement -- Battlefield earth : Five Percenter feminism -- Gods of the word -- Sunni gods : the prayers of first born prince Allah -- Assuming the traits of God -- Universal flag : a Five Percenter at Harvard.
- Call Number
- Sc D 20-426
- ISBN
- 9781585428687
- 158542868X
- LCCN
- 2011030039
- OCLC
- 706018279
- Author
- Knight, Michael Muhammad.
- Title
- Why I am a Five Percenter / Michael Muhammad Knight.
- Publisher
- New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, [2011]
- Copyright Date
- ©2011
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-285) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 20-426