THE BLACK BOOK:
THE TRUE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF MALCOLM X
(El Hajj Malik El Shabazz)
ed. by Y.N. Kly
ISBN: 0-932863-03-5, 104 pp., 1986, $9.95
Sixth printing
Now in its sixth printing, this highly popular book on the great African-American
Muslim illustrates the influence of his Islamic faith and his international
experience upon his constantly expanding political vision. The first to
present a comprehensive analysis that integrates the developing vision
of the man, Malcolm X, with the man he became, El Hajj Malik El Shabazz,
it provides an in-depth analysis of Malcolm's directives on why the African-American
struggle for national liberation and self-determination is necessary, how
it should be carried on, and why it can succeed.
"Numerous works have been written on the life and ideals of Malcolm
X by a marxist, liberal, communist, capitalist or Black Power follower
which, obviously, paid scant regard to the total Islamic commitment of
Malcolm X. Therefore, this contribution by a Muslim to clarify and analyze
in depth the ideals of Malcolm X on the basis of the Qur'an and Sunnah
is long overdue... Kly makes an excellent comparative study of Malcolm's
ideological moorings in Islam... Highly recommended to any serious radical
scholar..."
Jamalludien Ahmed Hamdulah, Muslim Views, South
Africa
"Given the Black Americans' parochial experiences of disparate allocation
of resources, Kly is acutely sensitive to the underdevelopment that, as
he perceives, the America-centered capitalist system consciously inflicted
upon Afro-Asian countries... Dr. Kly in 1986 still views Marxism-tinted
Muslim leaders like Nasser, Ben Bella and Ahmad Sekou Toure, like the non-Muslims
Nelson Mandela and Ho Chi Minh, as successful national liberation leaders
who mobilized masses with techniques that matched the "imperialist" powers'
sophistication. However, Kly's own careful observation of Algeria, where
he taught, perhaps bears fruit in his sharp characterization of the new
Islamist protest movements of the 1970s and 1980s: these have rejected
not just the Western powers and rightist regimes frankly allied to them
but also left-nationalist ones more guided by Marx than Islam. He projects
'reawakening Islam' as a 'third ideological force' that many in the Asian
and African countries seize as a road to rapid holistic change and development."
Dr. Dennis Walker, Holiday, Bangladesh
"The Islamic force tends to act against nationalism as introduced by
western European development and socialism as introduced in the development
of the USSR and China. It is both anti-nationalist and anti-materialistic.
All aspects of societal life are viewed as an integral part of the whole,
the din, the one God. Thus all aspects of life in the state must
be theoretically harmonized so as to achieve spiritual peace, happiness
and total submission to the will of one God. Both the governing elite and
masses are theoretically equalized by rules and principles from outside
of society (the Qur'an and Sunnah)..."
from The Black Book: The Political Philosophy of
Malcolm X (p.50)
"The Black Book is carefully being passed from hand to hand or
from heart to heart..."
Abdulla Babayide Abdulla, Nigeria
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