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Islam in the African-American experience

The involvement of African Americans with Islam reaches back to the earliest days of the African presence in North America. This book explores these roots in the Middle East, West Africa and antebellum America
Print Book, English, ©2003
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Ind., ©2003
xxxv, 312 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780253343239, 9780253216304, 0253343232, 0253216303
52153988
What shall we call him? Islam and African-American identity
Muslims in a strange land : African Muslim slaves in America
Pan-Africanism and the new American Islam : Edward Wilmot Blyden and Mohammed Alexander Russell Webb
The name means everything : Noble Drew Ali and the Moorish Science Temple of America
The Ahmadiyya mission to America : a multi-racial model for American Islam
Missionizing and signifying: W.D. Fard and the early history of the Nation of Islam
Malcolm X and his successors : contemporary significations of African-American Islam
Commodification of identity