In part 3 of our series on slavery, Imam Dawud Walid considers the aftereffects of slavery on our current condition, its historical role in contributing to anti-blackness in the community today, and how it affects our understanding of Qur'anic language and theological concepts such as 'ubudiyyah (being a slave to God).

Imam Dawud Walid is the Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) and member of the Imams Council of Michigan. He is the author of several books, including Blackness and Islam, Towards Sacred Activism, and Centering Black Narrative: Black Muslim Nobles Among the Early Pious Muslims.

CHAPTERS:

0:00 - Introduction

5:39 - The Conflation of Slavery and Anti-Blackness

11:50 - Racialization in Language During the Abbasids & The Zanj Rebellion

16:20 - The Fabrication of Anti-Black Narrations

17:50 - Deployment of Racially-Specific Language

21:00 - Blackness and Arabness

21:56 - A Story of Imam Ali ibn Musa al-Rida

24:54 - Effects of Slavery on Fomenting Anti-Blackness

26:44 - Anti-Blackness and Representation

36:26 - Scholars Fighting Anti-Blackness and Race-Based Slavery

46:17 - Revisiting the "Arab Slave Trade"

1:00:13 - Slavery to God and Freedom

1:10:52 - Qur'anic Parables of the Slave and Free

1:16:06 - Egalitarianism Vs. Social Hierarchy in the Qur'an

1:20:31 - Modern-Day Slaves