Islam among urban Blacks : Muslims in Newark, New Jersey : a social history / Michael Nash.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nash, Michael, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--New Jersey--Newark--History.

Islam.

African American Muslims--New Jersey--Newark--History.

African American Muslims.

African American Muslims--New Jersey--Newark--Social conditions.

Black Muslims--New Jersey--Newark--History.

Black Muslims.

Black Muslims--New Jersey--Newark--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

History.

New Jersey--Newark.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 129 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 2008.

Summary:

Islam among Urban Blacks examines the evolution of Muslim community development in our nation's third oldest city, Newark, New Jersey. It is an historical account of the efforts of a diverse community that over several decades grappled with the challenge of establishing a respected place for their Islamic lifestyle within the United States of America. Further, it is a story linked closely to the experience of African Americans who have claimed Islam as their religion and struggled to create and to maintain an identity in the social fabric of Newark's twentieth-century Black religious culture. Few historians have acknowledged that Newark's Muslim community contributed to the enrichment of the city's urban culture. However, the community was also impacted by the industrial Newark of the early twentieth-century and the promise of American freedom just as other ethnic and religious communities in the area. The complexities of race, identity, inter-religious and intra-religious relations are the four central themes explored within this scholarly work.

Contents:

1 The Early Stages 1

2 A City Ripe for Settlement 10

3 A Seed is Planted 18

4 New Direction 41

5 Continuities and Linkages 50

6 The Expansion 64

7 Growing Pains 104.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-121) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Nash, Michael. Islam among urban Blacks.

ISBN:

9780761838661

076183866X

OCLC:

166391272

Publisher Number:

2612912