Islam in the African-American Experience

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Islam in the African-American Experience is written by Richard Brent Turner and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0253332389 (ISBN 10) and 9780253332387 (ISBN 13).

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.