Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-292) and index.
Muslims in a strange land: African Muslim slaves in America --- Pan-Africanism and the new American Islam: Edward Wilmot Blyden and Mohammed Alexander Russell Webb --- The name means everything: Noble Drew Ali and the Moorish Science Temple of America --- The Ahmadiyya mission to America: a multi-racial model for American Islam --- Missionizing and signifying: W.D. Fard and the early history of the nation of Islam --- Malcolm X and his successors: contemporary significations of African-American Islam --- Epilogue. Commodification of identity.
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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. -- Back cover.