1. Islam in the African American Experience
In his incisive book, Islam in the African American Experience, Richard Brent Turner takes the reader through the evolution of Islam in black America. ... 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."... Mohammed Alexander Russell Webb, the first known European-American convert to Islam, acted as a spokesman for the movement in America. ... It describes n...
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