Description
Book SynopsisShows the involvement of black Americans with Islam reaches back to the earliest days of African presence in North America. This book explores these roots in the Middle East, West Africa, and antebellum America. It tells the story of the "Prophets of the City" - the leaders of the urban-based African-American Muslim movements in the 20th century.
Table of ContentsPreliminary Table of Contents:
Introduction to the Second Edition
Part One: 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
Part Two: 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
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
