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A history of conversion to Islam in the United States. Volume 2 : the African American Islamic Renaissance, 1920-1975 / by Patrick D. Bowen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowen, Patrick D., author.
- Series:
- Muslim minorities ; Volume 25.
- Muslim Minorities, 1570-7571 ; Volume 25
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Muslim converts--United States.
- Muslim converts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (732 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, [The Netherlands] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : BRILL, 2017.
- Summary:
- In A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 2: The African American Islamic Renaissance, 1920-1975 Patrick D. Bowen offers an in-depth account of African American Islam as it developed in the United States during the fifty-five years that followed World War I. Having been shaped by a wide variety of intellectual and social influences, the ‘African American Islamic Renaissance’ appears here as a movement that was characterized by both great complexity and diversity. Drawing from a wide variety of sources—including dozens of FBI files, rare books and periodicals, little-known archives and interviews, and even folktale collections—Patrick D. Bowen disentangles the myriad social and religious factors that produced this unprecedented period of religious transformation.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Introduction
- African American Religion and Folk Culture before 1920
- A Universal Transformation
- Allah across America
- Noble Drew Ali
- The Moorish Science Temple of America
- W.D. Fard
- The Nation of Islam
- Smaller Sects and Independent Mystics
- Early Sunnis
- A Nation Reborn
- Non-NOI Muslims in the Postwar Period
- New Transformations
- A Nation Divided, a Nation Changed
- A Cultural Revolution
- Islamic Organizations in the Post-Malcolm World
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 13, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 90-04-35437-9
- OCLC:
- 1003488375
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004354371 DOI
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