Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas,9780521840958

Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas

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ISBN13: 9780521840958
ISBN10: 0521840953
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-03-21
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Beginning with Latin America in the fifteenth century, this book is a social history of the experiences of African Muslims and their descendants throughout the Americas, including the Caribbean. The record under slavery is examined, as is the post-slavery period into the twentieth century. The experiences vary, arguably due to some extent to the Old World context. Muslim revolts in Brazil are also discussed, especially in 1835, by way of a nuanced analysis. The second part of the book looks at the emergence of Islam among the African-descended in the United States in the twentieth century, with successive chapters on Noble Drew Ali, Elijah Muhammad, and Malcolm X, with a view to explaining how orthodoxy arose from varied unorthodox roots.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Prologue ix
PART ONE
Ladinos, Gelofes, and Mandingas
3(44)
Caribbean Crescent
47(44)
Brazilian Sambas
91(37)
Muslims in New York
128(15)
Founding Mothers and Fathers of a Different Sort: African Muslims in the Early North American South
143(60)
Interlude: Into a Glass Darkly - Elisive Communities
185(18)
PART TWO
Breaking Away: Noble Drew Ali and the Foundations of Contemporary Islam in African America
203(73)
The Nation
276(55)
Malcolm
331(40)
Epilogue 371(6)
Index 377

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