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{{short description|American activist, religious leader and academic}}
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Dr. '''Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajajé''' (December 19, 1952 – February 9, 2016), formerly known as '''Elias Frajajé-Jones''', was a [[Queer theology|queer theologian]], [[AIDS]] [[HIV/AIDS activism|activist]], scholar, spiritual leader, academic and professor. In 2023 a [[festschrift]] entitled ''Dr. Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajajé: A Legacy of Afrocentric, Decolonial, In-the-Life Theology and Bisexual Intersexional Philosophical Thought and Practice'' was published, edited by [[H Sharif Williams]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Williams |first=H. “Herukhuti” Sharif |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=APfREAAAQBAJ&q=Ibrahim+Abdurrahman+Farajaj%C3%A9 |title=Dr. Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajajé: A Legacy of Afrocentric, Decolonial, In-the-Life Theology and Bisexual Intersexional Philosophical Thought and Practice |date=2023-10-10 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-000-96975-7 |language=en}}</ref>
Farajajé was raised in [[Berkeley, California]] in an ethnically and religiously diverse environment. His parents were both education activists.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Cherry|first=Kittredge|title=Ibrahim Farajajé: Queer theologian, AIDS activist, interfaith scholar, spiritual leader|url=https://qspirit.net/ibrahim-farajaje-queer-theologian/|access-date=2021-11-26|website=qspirit.net}}</ref> He was one of the first black male students at [[Vassar College]] where he received a bachelor’s degree in religion in 1972. He went on to teach at [[Howard University School of Divinity]] in 1986.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Hamilton|first=Kenneth|date=2020-11-30|title=Whatever Way Love's Camel Takes: Remembering Baba Ibrahim Farajajé|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/15299716.2020.1840832|journal=Journal of Bisexuality|volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=337–348|doi=10.1080/15299716.2020.1840832|s2cid=229399847|issn=1529-9716}}</ref> In the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]], Farajajé was an ordained priest in the [[Santería|Santería religion]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Baker-Fletcher|first=Garth|title=Black religion after the Million Man March: Voices on the future|publisher=Orbis Books|year=1998|isbn=978-1-57-075159-2|location=University of Michigan|pages=84|language=English}}</ref> In 1995 he started as a faculty member at [[Starr King School for the Ministry]]. At Starr King, Farajajé was a [[Provost (religion)|provost]] and professor of cultural studies and Islamic studies until his death in 2016.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=James H Cone|first=Gayraud S Wilmore|title=Black History: A Documentary History|publisher=Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books|year=1993|isbn=0883448688|pages=139–158|language=English}}</ref>
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