American caliph : the true story of a Muslim mystic, a Hollywood epic, and the 1977 siege of Washington, DC / Shahan Mufti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mufti, Shahan, 1981- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Khaalis, Hamaas Abdul, 1921-2003.

Khaalis, Hamaas Abdul.

Terrorism--Washington (D.C.)--History--20th century.

Terrorism.

Muslims--United States--Biography.

Muslims.

Mystics.

Khilafat movement.

Hostage negotiations.

Hanafites--Washington (D.C.).

Hanafites.

United States.

Washington (D.C.).

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

True crime stories.

Physical Description:

viii, 367 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Summary:

"The riveting true story of America's first homegrown Muslim terror attack, the 1977 Hanafi siege of Washington, D.C"-- Provided by publisher.

Late in the morning of March 9, 1977, seven men stormed the Washington, D.C., headquarters of B'nai B'rith International, the largest and oldest Jewish service organization in America. The heavily armed attackers quickly took control of the building and held more than a hundred employees of the organization hostage inside. A little over an hour later, three more men entered the Islamic Center of Washington, the country's largest and most important mosque, and took hostages there. Two others subsequently penetrated the District Building, a few hundred yards from the White House. When a firefight broke out, a reporter was killed, and Marion Barry, later to become mayor of Washington, D.C., was shot in the chest. The deadly standoff brought downtown Washington to a standstill. The attackers belonged to the Hanafi Movement, an African American Muslim group based in D.C. Their leader was a former jazz drummer named Hamaas Abdul Khaalis, who had risen through the ranks of the Nation of Islam before feuding with the organization's mercurial chief, Elijah Muhammad, and becoming a spiritual authority to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Like Malcolm X, Khaalis had become sharply critical of the Nation's unorthodox style of Islam. And, like Malcolm X, he paid dearly for his outspokenness: In 1973, followers of the Nation murdered seven Hanafis at their headquarters, including several members of Khaalis's family. When they took hostages in 1977, one of the Hanafis' demands was for the murderers, along with Muhammad Ali and Elijah's son, to be turned over to the group to face justice. They also demanded that the American premiere of Mohammad: Messenger of God--an epic about the life of the prophet Muhammad financed and supported by the Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi--be canceled and the film destroyed. The lives of 149 hostages hung in the balance, and the United States' fledgling counterterrorism forces--as yet untested--would have to respond.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: PART I

1. Psychological Warfare

2. Black Is Green

3. No. 7

4. The Sheik

5. Homegrown

6. Sailor's Club

7. World League

8. Jihad Productions

9. Day Of Doom

10. Sports Rescue

11. Subjective Camera

12. Look And See

13. Seed Of The Hypocrite

14. Asylum

15. Top Rank

16. Stool Pigeon

17. Pilgrimage

18. Revenge Of Allah

19. Progress Report

20. Compass

21. Only Four

PART II

22. Holy Land

23. Guns Out

24. Golden Voice

25. Anti-Defamation

26. Egyptian Mission

27. Projection Room

28. Spyglass

29. Federal Triangle

30. One And Only

31. Jurisdiction

32. Hog-Tied

33. Spooks

34. Cease And Desist

35. Big Surprise

36. Panorama

37. True Picture

38. Brothers In Islam

39. Chain Of Command

40. Table Spread

41. Fair Justice

PART III

42. Things Go Boom

43. Faith And Country

44. Big Man

45. Inheritor Of The Faith

46. American Muslim

47. Homefront.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780374208585

0374208581

OCLC:

1336461787