A history of conversion to Islam in the United States. : the African American Islamic Renaissance, 1920-1975 / / Volume 2 : / by Patrick D. Bowen.

• Superior document: Muslim Minorities, Volume 25
• VerfasserIn: Bowen, Patrick D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [The Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : BRILL,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Muslim minorities ; Volume 25.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (732 pages).

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 by a wide variety of intellectual and social influences, the ‘African American Islamic Renaissance’ appears here as a movement that was characterized by both great complexity and diversity. Drawing from a wide variety of sources—including dozens of FBI files, rare books and periodicals, little-known archives and interviews, and even folktale collections—Patrick D. Bowen disentangles the myriad social and religious factors that produced this unprecedented period of religious transformation.

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.