An Oral History of Islam in Pittsburgh - Part One

Part One of "An Oral History of Islam in Pittsburgh" examines the evolution of Islam in Pittsburgh beginning with migrant ex-slaves in the post Civil War era, to the early twentieth century, when indigenous Muslims began collecting pieces of Islam to form their own communities. The film looks at pseudo-Islamic movements such as the Moorish Science Temple and the Nation of Islam, in addition to off-shoots of traditional Islam such as the Ahmadiyah movement, which were all part of Islam's evolution in the city's indigenous Muslim population.

Time is spent to examine the contributions of Dr. Yousef Khan, a man largely responsible for migrating members of Pittsburgh's Moorish Science Temple to a more traditional Islam.

Part two of the documentary is available here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WBfhsupMKc

Higher quality downloadable versions of the film are available at the following links:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7363431744141688988

http://www.archive.org/details/An_Oral_History_of_Islam_in_Pittsburgh

For further information visit: http://islaminpittsburgh.com

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[Thefreeheart]

B.S.!

[19141920]

What is Fatawa? I heard it in the video used in regard to Moorish Science Temple? How can I find info about Muslims in the UNIA?

[soojenite]

this is a falsified history ( BIG FAKE ONE) i am a black man myself, generally WHITES did a lot of bad things to us, but some of us dont even know that ARABS killed more blacks than whites, can anyone show me where our ancestors lived or what they built in USA before slavery? these black americans are lazy, even almost useless, brainwashed, passive... hard headed, how come my parents came to USA in 1980 and got me 1984 we raised from 0 to something kind big today? are we white?

[123mooa]

arabs are not our brothers and islam aint no black religion.negros are stupid.

[P4infulDu3ling]

The three letters that make up the Hebrew word for God "elleh" is Alef, lameth, thahe.

These same exact 3 constants make up the word Allah in Arabic, but in their Arabic form. Alef, lam, thah. I'd like to see anyone make the claim the word Allah doesn't mean God now..

[P4infulDu3ling]

On a finale note if your really too lazy to watch an 8 minutes video than here:

Arabic gets its roots from Hebrew and Aramaic. In the past few decades Evangelical Christians have been spreading the lie that Allah in Arabic does not mean God, which is pretty stupid since they are all American. Anyway they say this because the world "olloh" with the fatah sogol and etc means curse. Without it and as constants it means God.

[P4infulDu3ling]

Oh and that is one hell of an insane and idiotic claim to make with no proof. Travelling doesn't prove or disprove that at all lol...

And also telling someone to go travel to prove your point is very weak on your side because you yourself cant prove it.

But on the other hand you sure gave me a good laugh... a person who spreads their beliefs but doesn't follow them themselves, you must have gotten a hard blow to the head m8..

[P4infulDu3ling]

Dude, it doesn't matter what it means in Arabic is the meaning. It's like suddenly giving English words different meanings because of their Latin roots. So yes it means sons, and really what do you care its not like you can change the Arabic language.

Dialect and root words are two different things, second of all if the Hebrew word your talking about doesn't mean God than obviously your pointing out a completely different word ON PURPOSE.

[Yisrealite]

That's arabic not the original word form in which etymotology suggest it means well/blessed or in the latin form of bene it matters what language you are refering to- be precise-

Wrong- Allah and Ahayah has two different meanings-sorry- learn your dialects please

All three are corrupted, if you every go out to the eastern horn and actually travel you would know that muhammad wasn't even a muslim, but you might not know that

[P4infulDu3ling]

And rlly use some common sense, the catholic church was in Europe, Islam started spreading in the Middle East. Why on Earth would the catholic church spread a religion that disagrees with its most important view, being Jesus's crucifixion, and then let it spread in a completely different region.

But go ahead, humor me.