Black Crescent The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas

Name: Black Crescent The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas
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ISBN: 9780521600798

ISBN-10: 0521600790

ISBN-13: 9780521600798

Edition: 2005

Authors: Michael A. Gomez

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Beginning with Latin America in the fifteenth century, this book comprises a social history of the experiences of African Muslims and their descendants throughout the Americas, including the Caribbean. The years under slavery are examined, as well as the post-slavery period. The study also analyzes Muslim revolts in Brazil--especially in 1835. The second part of the book traces the emergence of Islam among U.S. African descendants in the twentieth century, featuring chapters on Noble Drew Ali, Elijah Muhammad, and Malcolm X to explain how orthodoxy arose from varied unorthodox roots. Currently Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies at NYU, Michael Gomez has research interests that…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/4/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 396
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.25" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English

Michael Gomez is professor of history and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University. He is the author of Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South.



Acknowledgments


Prologue



Ladinos, Gelofes and Mandingas



Caribbean crescent



Brazilian sambas



Muslims in New York



Founding mothers and fathers of a different sort: African Muslims in the Early North American South; Interlude


In a Glass darkly - elisive communities



Breaking away - noble Drew Ali and the foundations of contemporary Islam in African America



The nation



Malcolm


Epilogue