Part one of the book is called “Root Sources”. In it, Turner comprehensively demonstrates how he believes that, “The new American Islam was deeply influenced by racism in America, by the Pan-African political movement of African Americans in the early twentieth century, and by the historic patterns of racial separation in Islam.”(p.67) Turner utilizes Part one to set the stage for the “new Islam” of the twentieth century discussed in part two.

In the first chapter, titled “Muslims in a Strange Land: American Muslim Slaves in America”, Turner describes for the reader the early evolution of Islam among blacks in West Africa. He also describes how that same brand of “old Islam” would follow African Slaves across the Atlantic to the shores of North America.

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