Living Momsisterhood
Shownotes:
Dr. Jamillah Karim with academic qualification as long our wingspans joins us today to dispel several Muslim biases vs polygyny: she’s educated, she’s financially capable, she’s independent, she’ authoritative, she’s confident, and she CHOOSES polygyny as a way of life for herself. She is both frank about her support of it as a source for authentically loving and supporting Muslim sisterhood, as well as recognizing the role of jealousy in polygyny. She does an excellent job of weighing pros and cons aloud in this episode so if anyone has never entertained both sides of polygyny, consider doing it. Hear about how polygyny serves her spiritual purposes, which in and of themselves are enviable mashaAllah.
Furthermore, for all those viscerally anti polygyny, consider the pervasive barriers to mere SURVIVAL that Black Americans, specifically Black Muslims, face and why polygyny may be a critical tool they need to perpetuate healthy Muslim families. For anyone slamming polygyny willy nilly this month on our socials and DMs, consider the anti Blackness of your prejudice to choices made by our brothers and sisters in America. Are you ready to be a bigot? Are you ready to marry Black Muslim women into your non-Black Muslim family?
Note: For those who don’t know what the “Warith Deen community” mentioned in this episode is, it’s the community of primarily Black Muslim Americans who followed the son of Elijah Mohammad, Warith Deen Muhammad, to mass conversion from The Nation of Islam to Sunni Islam in the 1970s.
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Links:
Dr. Karim on IG: https://www.instagram.com/jamillahkarim/
Dr. Karim on FB: https://www.facebook.com/jamillah.karim
https://www.musawah.org/blog/rethinking-polygamy-lets-talk-about-the-consequences/
Dr. Karim’s book: American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah (Religion, Race, and Ethnicity)
Dr. Karim’s other book that also includes a lot of discussion about polygyny: Women of the Nation: Between Black Protest and Sunni Islam
Book cited by Dr. Karim in this episode: Is Marriage for White People?: How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone
Book cited by Dr. Karim in this episode: We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves: African American Women Who Practice Polygyny by Consent
Private polygamy in America: https://www.npr.org/2008/05/27/90857818/some-muslims-in-u-s-quietly-engage-in-polygamy
Info on polygamy: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/12/07/polygamy-is-rare-around-the-world-and-mostly-confined-to-a-few-regions/
What Dr. Karim is reading right now: Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970
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