The Spirits of Black Folk: Sages Through the Ages

Adeyinka Mendes

Following his transformative and popular online course ‘Black Lives Around the Messenger ﷺ’, in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd, Shaykh Adeyinka Mendes presents selected translations from Imam al-Suyuti’s book, ‘The Excellence of Black People’ (Raf’u Sha’n al-Hubshan). The book documents the intimate relationship that thousands of Black African Muslims and Black Arab Muslims had with the Prophet ﷺ, highlights the pivotal roles they played in the early Muslim community, as well as the inspiring lives of other Black Nobles before and after the Prophet’s time ﷺ, and African words found in the Qur’an.