Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-302) and index.
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What shall we call him? Islam and African-American identity -- 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 -- Commodification of identity.