Table of Contents

Preliminary Table of Contents:
Introduction to the Second Edition
Part One: Root Sources
1. Muslims in a Strange Land: African Muslim Slaves in America
2. Pan-Africanism and the New-American Islam: Edward Wilmot Blyden and Mohammed Alexander Russell Webb
Part Two: Prophets of the City
3. The Name Means Everything: Noble Drew Ali and the Moorish Science Temple of America
4. The Ahmadiyya Mission to America: A Multi-Racial Model for American Islam
5. Missionizing and Signifying: W. D. Fard and the Early History of the Nation of Islam
6. Malcolm X and His Successors: Contemporary Significations of African-American Islam
Epilogue: Commodification of Identity
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

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An updated edition of this essential history of Islam in the lives of African Americans.

About the Author

Richard Brent Turner is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Iowa. He lives in Iowa City.

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