Full Description
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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
The Years 1619-1919
1 African American Religion and Folk Culture before 1920
The Years 1920-1945
2 A Universal Transformation
3 Allah across America
4 Noble Drew Ali
5 The Moorish Science Temple of America
6 W.D. Fard
7 The Nation of Islam
8 Smaller Sects and Independent Mystics
9 Early Sunnis
The Years 1945-1975
10 A Nation Reborn
11 Non-NOI Muslims in the Postwar Period
12 New Transformations
13 A Nation Divided, a Nation Changed
14 A Cultural Revolution
15 Islamic Organizations in the Post-Malcolm World
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
