While my focus in this book is on the nature of black suffering, it is my hope that the broader relevance of the theological questions it raises and treats will not be lost on my reader. Questions regarding God's omnipotence, and this God's prerogative (moral and ontological), as well as God's omnibenevolence, and thus the extent to which God's will may or may not conform to humans' wishes and expectations, are critically relevant to any number of issues presently being debated among Muslim-Americans--from the "gender-jihad" to ethics, liberalism, democracy and human rights to Islam and interreligious dialogue. In this context, one of the ancillary benefits of this book may be its contribution to setting Muslim public religious discourse in America on firmer theological footing. (25)
-from the introduction to Dr. Jackson's Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering
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