Black pilgrimage to Islam

Black pilgrimage to Islam / Robert Dannin ; photographs by Jolie Stahl.

This book offers a comprehensive ethnographic study of African-American Muslims. Drawing on hundreds of interviews conducted over a period of several years, Dannin provides an unprecedented look inside the fascinating and little understood world of black Muslims. He discovers that the well-known and...

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Main Author: Dannin, Robert, 1952- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Islam > United States > History.
African American Muslims > History.
Muslim converts > United States > History.
Black Muslims > History.
RELIGION > Islam > General.
African American Muslims
Black Muslims
Islam
Muslim converts
United States
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History
Livres numériques.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • -- PART I. TRACKING THE RED FEZ. 1. Of Masons and Moors
  • - 2. The Diplomacy of Missionaries and Sheiks
  • - 3. Be-bop to Brotherhood and Beyond
  • -- PART II. CONVERSION SAGAS. 4. "From the Cotton Fields of the South to the Sands of Arabia"
  • - 5. West Valley
  • - 6. The Place That Didnʹt Belong in Brownsville
  • - 7. "Island in a Sea of Ignorance"
  • - 8. The Many Dimensions of a Muslim Woman
  • - 9. Patriarchy Revisited
  • - 10. An Islamic Pedagogy of the Oppressed?
  • -- Conclusion: African Diaspora and Muslim Umma.

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