A history of conversion to Islam in the United States. Vol. 2. The African American Islamic Renaissance, 1920-1975 /

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...

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Main Author: Bowen, Patrick D.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden : Koninklijke Brill NV, 2017.

Series: Muslim Minorities 25.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353343.

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Call Number: BP170.5 .B68 2017

Table of 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.