Black Routes to Islam

Starting with 19th century narratives of African American travelers to the Holy Land, the following chapters probe Islam's role in urban social movements, music and popular culture, relations between African Americans and Muslim immigrants, and the racial

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The Critical Black Studies Series Institute for Research in African-American Studies Edited by Manning Marable

The Critical Black Studies Series features readers and anthologies examining challenging topics within the contemporary black experience in the United States, the Caribbean, Africa, and across the African diaspora. All readers include scholarly articles originally published in the acclaimed quarterly interdisciplinary journal Souls, published by the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. Under the general editorial supervision of Manning Marable, the readers in the series are designed both for college and university course adoption as well as for general readers and researchers. The Critical Black Studies Series seeks to provoke intellectual debate and exchange over the most critical issues confronting the political, socioeconomic, and cultural reality of black life in the United States and beyond. Titles in this series published by Palgrave Macmillan: Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives: The Racism, Criminal Justice, and Law Reader (2007) Edited by Manning Marable, Keesha Middlemass, and Ian Steinberg Seeking Higher Ground: The Hurricane Katrina Crisis, Race, and Public Policy Reader (2008) Edited by Manning Marable and Kristen Clarke Transnational Blackness: Navigating the Global Color Line (2008) Edited by Manning Marable and Vanessa Agard-Jones Black Routes to Islam Edited by Manning Marable and Hishaam D. Aidi Barack Obama and African-American Empowerment: The Rise of Black America’s New Leadership Edited by Manning Marable and Kristin Clarke New Social Movements in the African Diaspora: Challenging Global Apartheid Edited by Leith Mullings The New Black History: The African-American Experience since 1945 Reader Edited by Manning Marable and Peniel E. Joseph Beyond Race: New Social Movements in the African Diaspora Edited by Manning Marable The Black Women, Gender, and Sexuality Reader Edited by Manning Marable Black Intellectuals: The Race, Ideology, and Power Reader Edited by Manning Marable

Black Routes to Islam

Edited by Manning Marable and Hishaam D. Aidi

black routes to islam Copyright © Manning Marable and Hishaam D. Aidi, 2009. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2009 978-1-4039-8400-5 All rights reserved. First published in 2009 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4039-7781-6 ISBN 978-1-4039-7781-6 ISBN 978-0-230-62374-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1

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