"ISLAM in African-American Experience" R.B.Turner (1997)

This newly updated history of Islam in the black community traces the involvement of African Americans with Islam to its roots in the Middle East, West Africa, and antebellum America, and then tells the story of the „Prophets of the City“ – the leaders of the new urban-based African American Muslims movements in the twentieth century.

It places the study od Islam in the context of the racial, ethical, and the political relations that influenced the reception of succesive presentations of Islam, including the West African Islam of slaves, The Ahmadiyya Movement from India, The orthodox Sunni practice of later immigrants, and the Nation of Islam.
In addition to an updated bibliography, the revised edition features a new introduction, which assesses the impact of 9/11 on African-American Muslims, the growth of a mainstream Islamic community among African Americans, and the contemporary interactions between Islam and Hip Hop culture (Mos Def, Ali Shaheed Muhammad or Chuck D) which had had impact on jazz musicians (Ahmad Jamal, McCoy Tyner or Yusef Lateef) in the 50´s and the 60´s.

Richard Brent Turner is Associate Professor in the departments of African American World Studies and Religious Studies at The University of Lowa.
Info R.B.Turner → The University of Iowa

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Title: ISLAM in African-american experience
Author: Richard Brent Turner
Publisher: INDIANA University Press
Year: 1997 (2nd ed.2003)
Number of pages: 312
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:: Contents ::

PART ONE: Root Sources

1. Muslims in a strange land: African slaves in America
2. Pan-Africanism and the new American islam

PART TWO: Prophets Of The City

1. Noble Drew Ali and the Moorish Science Temple of America
2. The Ahmadiyya mission to America: A Multi-racial model for American islam
3. W.D.Fard and the early history of the Nation Of Islam
4. Malcolm X and his successors: Contemporary significations of African-American Islam