1st Edition

Dr. Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajajé A Legacy of Afrocentric, Decolonial, In-the-Life Theology and Bisexual Intersexional Philosophical Thought and Practice

Edited By H. “Herukhuti” Sharif Williams Copyright 2024
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

This book is a posthumous tribute to bisexual philosopher, theologian, AIDS-activist and educator, Shaykh Dr. Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajajé (b. 1952; d. 2016) and contains scholarship, critical engagement, and creative responses that illustrate the significance of his life and work to queer theory, liberation theology, decoloniality, Islamic/Tasawwuf studies, sacred sexuality, religious responses... Read more

Introduction—The Bridge and the Water: An Introduction to the Gedenkschrift Honoring the Life and Work of Shaykh Dr. Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajajé

H. “Herukhuti” Sharif Williams 

1. Breaking Silence: Toward an in-the-Life Theology

Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajajé

2. Seeds in My Soul: Memories of Ibrahim

M’kali-Hashiki

3. Creating Change (1995) Keynote Speech

Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajajé

4. Sex Toys on the Altar

Loraine Hutchins

5. Andalusia and Beyond

Kathleen Young and Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajajé

6. Atzmotai: My self, My bones

Yael Schonzeit 

7. Fictions of Purity

Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajajé

8. Power to Become Children of God: Remembering in-the-Life with a Johannine (Dis)Position

Eric A. Thomas

9. Forum II – Affirming Diversity: Promise and Challenge

Alma Faith Crawford and Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajajé

10. A Tribute to Ibrahim Baba Farajajé: An Intersectional Perspective on Sexual Violence, Decolonization, and Standing Rock

Sol Yael Weiss

11. Starr King School Symposium 2012: Ibrahim Farajajé Opening Sermon (Excerpt)

Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajajé 

12. Celebrating Dr. Ibrahim Farajaje: A pioneer of Islamic studies

Starr King School for the Ministry 

13. Remembering Our Wholeness: Starr King School for the Ministry 2015 Symposium Opening Remarks

Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajajé

14. The Closest Thing to God in a Body

Taya Mâ Shere

15. Queer(y)ing Religious Education:Teaching the R(evolutionary) S(ub)Versions) or Relax! … It’s Just Religious Ed

Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajajé

16. Whatever Way Love’s Camel Takes: Remembering Baba Ibrahim Farajajé

Kenneth Hamilton

17. Holy Fuck

Elias Farajaje-Jones 

18. Oceans of Mercy: African American Sufi Muslims in the San Francisco Bay Area (2003) – A critical understanding/review of David Dezern and Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajaje’s Religious Documentary

Reviewed by Steven G. Fullwood

Biography

H. “Herukhuti” Sharif Williams, PhD, MEd is Founder and Chief Erotics Officer, Center for Culture, Sexuality, and Spirituality LLC. He is Core Faculty at Goddard College, Adjunct Associate Professor, City University of New York, and Visiting Associate Professor, Pratt Institute. Believing that he/she/they was important to the contextualization and advancement of his work, prior to his ancestral transition Dr. Farajajé asked Dr. Herukhuti to edit this collection.