| Description |
x, 300 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: What Shall We Call Him? Islam and African-American Identity -- Pt. 1. Root Sources. 1. Muslims in a Strange Land: African Muslim Slaves in America. 2. Pan-Africanism and the New American Islam: Edward Wilmot Blyden and Mohammed Alexander Russell Webb -- Pt. 2. Prophets of the City. 3. The Name Means Everything: Noble Drew Ali and the Moorish Science Temple of America. 4. The Ahmadiyya Mission to America: A Multi-Racial Model for American Islam. 5. Missionizing and Signifying: W. D. Fard and the Early History of the Nation of Islam. 6. Malcolm X and His Successors: Contemporary Significations of African-American Islam -- Epilogue: Commodification of Identity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-292) and index |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Religion.
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Islam -- United States.
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| LC no. |
96052515 |
| ISBN |
0253211042 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0253332389 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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