Bibframe Work
TitleImam and ITypeMoving ImageMonographSubjectHaron, Abdulla, -1969Shamis, KhalidHaron, Abdulla, -1969--Family. (LCSH)Muslims--South Africa--Cape Town--Biography (LCSH)Political crimes and offenses--South Africa--Cape Town (LCSH)Anti-apartheid activists--South Africa--Cape Town--Biography (LCSH)Government, Resistance to--South Africa--Cape Town (LCSH)Cape Town (South Africa)--Race relations (LCSH) ClassificationDDC: 305.6973092 full LCC: DT1949.H37 I53 2011 Could not render: bf:statusSummary"Londoner [Khalid] Shamis, son of a Libyan father and South African mother, finds little help in his search for identity. He returns to Cape Town on the trail of his famous grandfather, the influential 1960s Imam Abdullah Haron, and finds a mixed bag of prolonged cultural and political infighting. Haron was a divisive and unifying force in Muslim politics, championing the youth but alienating many in the Muslim Judicial Council with his anti-apartheid stance. Killed in custody, there followed the predictable battle for his legacy and achievements. As Shamis tries to distinguish fact from fiction, truth from legacy and contrivance from reality, a picture emerges of two complex characters, compelling in their contradictions--the story of a man and a time that shaped, and shattered, his family"--Container.The killing of the Imam: "In 1969, Imam Abdullah Haron was incarcerated and killed in detention under the Terrorism Act of 1967 in Cape Town, South Africa. His was one of the early deaths during apartheid's dark days ... Mixing animation, documentary and archive, this short film looks at the last few years of the Imam's life"--Container.DurationPT80MOrigin Date(s)2011 Authorized Access PointImam and I