Islam in the African-American Experience

Name: Islam in the African-American Experience
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ISBN: 9780253211040

ISBN-10: 0253211042

ISBN-13: 9780253211040

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Authors: Richard Brent Turner

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Malcolm X and, more recently, Louis Farrakhan are two of the more visible signs of Islam's influence in the lives and culture of African Americans. Yet, as Richard Brent Turner shows, the involvement of black American with Islam reaches back to the earliest days of the African presence in North America. Part I of the book explores these roots in the Middle East, West Africa, and antebellum America. Part II tells the story of the 'Prophets of the City'--the leaders of the new urban-based African-American Muslim movements in the twentieth century.

Book details

List price: $19.95
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 6/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.78" wide x 8.84" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Eckart Fouml;rster is Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He is also Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin.



Preface


Introduction: What Shall We Call Him? Islam and African-American Identity



Root Sources



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



Prophets of the City



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


Epilogue: Commodification of Identity


Notes


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Index