Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun)

Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun)
Studio album by Pharoah Sanders
Released	October 1970[1]
Recorded	July 1, 1970
Studio	A & R Studios, New York, NY
Genre	Spiritual jazz
Length	39:02
Label	Impulse!
Producer	Ed Michel
Pharoah Sanders chronology
Jewels of Thought (1969) Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun) (1970) Thembi (1971)

Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun) is an album by the American jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. It was recorded at A & R Studios in New York City on July 1, 1970, and released on Impulse! Records in the same year. The album's title is bilingual: "Summun Bukmun Umyun" is Arabic for "Deaf Dumb Blind".

The phrase صُمٌّ بُكْمٌ عُمْيٌ ṣummun, bukmun, ʻumyun is taken from verse 18 of Surat al-Baqarah in the Qur'an. According to the liner notes, the album is "predicated on spiritual truths and to the future enlightenment of El Kafirun or The Rejectors of Faith (non-believers)."

The performances on the album are strongly influenced by the music of Africa.