Islam in the African-American experience / Richard Brent Turner.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Turner, Richard Brent.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--United States.

Islam.

United States.

African Americans--Religion.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

x, 300 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Islam in the African American experience

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1997.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-292) and index.

ISBN:

0253332389

0253211042

OCLC:

36121321