Author Evening with Imam Dawud Walid

Author Evening with Imam Dawud Walid
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Imam Dawud Walid will be joining us on Friday, 24th October 2025, to launch his newest book, Islamic Metaphysics of Racism. Join us online for a riveting and profound discussion at IHRC.tv or on YouTube.

About the Event

When: Friday 24th October 2025, at 6:30 pm BST
Where: IHRC.tv or YouTube
Author Evening with Imam Dawud Walid

About the Book

You can pre-order the book at the IHRC Bookshop and Gallery here.
You can also browse the full collection of Dawud Walid’s book here.
Use code ‘DW15’ for 15% off at the IHRC Bookshop and Gallery on any book in the Dawud Walid Collection.

In Islamic Metaphysics of Racism, Imam Dawud Walid embarks on a profound exploration of the spiritual roots of racism, offering insights grounded in Islamic metaphysics. Addressing issues such as arrogance, ignorance, and envy, the book not only dissects the spiritual underpinnings of racial biases but also provides a practical guidance inspired by prophetic wisdom, charting a path toward personal and societal healing through self-purification.

A world stained by racism, tribalism, and nationalism calls us to cleanse our hearts, homes, and institutions, striving to leave this plane of existence empty of hate, as we first came, This book, like Islam, the way of love and path of the prophets, holds a message of hope, healing, redemption, and triumph for all children of Adam.

“What makes Islamic Metaphysics of Racism unique is that Imam Dawud Walid identifies which of those core vices result from and perpetuate racist and racialised societies, namely: arrogance, envy, compound ignorance, fear, grief, self-loathing and rage…He not only defines these spiritual illnesses but also proffers effective conceptual and practical cures for each. Imam Dawud Walid has done the world a great service by writing this original work, standing on the lofty shoulders of past sage-scholars and making their teachings relevant for a new generation. May almighty God reward Imam Dawud.”

Imam Adeyinka Mendes

About the Author

Dawud Walid is currently the Executive Director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI), member of the Imams Council of Michigan, and advisory board member of Muslim Endorsement Council (MEC) which is a national endorsement and support organization for Islamic chaplaincy.

Walid is the author of the books Islamic Metaphysics of Racism, Futuwwah and Raising Males Into Sacred Manhood, Blackness and Islam, and Towards Sacred Activism as well as co-author of the books Centering Black Narrative: Black Muslim Nobles Among the Early Pious Muslims, and Centering Black Narrative: Ahl al-Bayt, Blackness & Africa. He is also the author of essays in the 2012 book All-American: 45 American Men on Being Muslim, the 2014 book Qur’an in Conversation, and the 2023 Yaqeen Institute research paper “How to Overcome Racism: Lessons From West African Scholars’ Tafsīr of Sūrat al-Ḥujurāt” and the forewords to the 2021 book The Spirits of Black Folks: Sages Throughout the Ages, 2023 book Reports on the Dajjal (Akhbar al-Dajjal), and the 2023 book The Enemy Within: Why We Black Americans Must Confront Ourselves.
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