This book consists of five chapters. In Chapter I, I trace the development of Muslim theology from its embryonic beginnings to its status as a full-blown metacognitive tradition. Part of the purpose of this chapter is to highlight the extent to which history and societal situadedness informed classical Muslim theological discourse. This should go a long way toward vindicating the project of placing American reality at the center of Blackamerican Muslim theological contemplation, not as a transcendent, authoritative source of information about God but as the plain on which God's self-disclosure assumes concrete meaning and practical relevance in validatable form. (23)
-from the introduction of Dr. Jackson's Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering
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