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Islam in the African-American Experience
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The Muslim World
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October 1, 2000
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Islam in the African-American Experience
By Richard Brent Turner Bloomington, IN. Indiana University Press, 1997 ISBN 0-253-21104-2, x + 300 pp
This book is the first attempt at an interpretative narrative of the role of Islam in African American history. It is essentially an expansion of the author's dissertation at Princeton University on the Ahmadiyya mission to the United States entitled, "Islam in the United States in the 1920s: the Quest for a New Vision in Afro-American Religion." In contrast to the earlier studies by such authors as C. Eric Lincoln and E.U. Essien-Udom, which interpreted the presence of "Black Muslims" as a reaction to the failure of the socio-political structure ...
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