First Time Reading Roots, and I Don't Understand Kunta's…
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First Time Reading Roots, and I Don't Understand Kunta's Aversion to Christianity
Kunta was a devout Muslim, who was instructed in the ways of Islam from an early age and was taught to read and write by way of the Qu'ran. However, when he meets the African American slaves of the plantation he seems completely unfamiliar with Jesus or with the fact that the Christian God and Allah are one in the same.
From Sudrah 3, Verse 84: "...We believe in Allah, and in what has been revealed to us and what was revealed to Abraham, Isma'il, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and in (the Books) given to Moses, **Jesus**, and the prophets, from their Lord: We make no distinction between one and another..."
Frequently throughout the Qu'ran, Jews, Christians and Muslims are referred to as "People of the Book" and are all counted as "those who submit". Even as a secular reader of myth and religion I have to wonder how the Most Devout Muslim didn't see the Christian slaves he was with as People of the Book or know who one of the most important prophets of his religion was (Jesus)?
It makes me wonder if this was a blind spot in Alex Haley's research or if there's another version of Islam that the Mandinga people were observing?
#entertainment
Kunta was a devout Muslim, who was instructed in the ways of Islam from an early age and was taught to read and write by way of the Qu'ran. However, when he meets the African American slaves of the plantation he seems completely unfamiliar with Jesus or with the fact that the Christian God and Allah are one in the same.
From Sudrah 3, Verse 84: "...We believe in Allah, and in what has been revealed to us and what was revealed to Abraham, Isma'il, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and in (the Books) given to Moses, **Jesus**, and the prophets, from their Lord: We make no distinction between one and another..."
Frequently throughout the Qu'ran, Jews, Christians and Muslims are referred to as "People of the Book" and are all counted as "those who submit". Even as a secular reader of myth and religion I have to wonder how the Most Devout Muslim didn't see the Christian slaves he was with as People of the Book or know who one of the most important prophets of his religion was (Jesus)?
It makes me wonder if this was a blind spot in Alex Haley's research or if there's another version of Islam that the Mandinga people were observing?
#entertainment
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