Black Routes to Islam

Introduction: Captives and Narratives: The Early Muslim Presence and Its Significance; M.Marable & H.Aidi PART I: GEOGRAPHIES AND THE POLITICAL IMAGINATION Locating Palestine in the African American Imagination: Captives and Narratives: The Early Muslim Presence and Its Significance; A.Lubin Black Orientalism: Its Genesis, Aims and Significance for American Islam; S.Jackson Islamism and Its African American Muslim Critics: Black Muslims in the Era of the Arab Cold War; E.Curtis East of the Sun (West of the Moon): Islam, the Ahmadis, and African America; M.Bayoumi Representing Permanent War: Black Power's Palestine and the End(s) of Civil Rights; K.P.Feldman PART II: SOLIDARITY AND RESISTANCE 'Every brother on a rooftop can quote Fanon': Algeria in the African-American Imaginary, 1959-1978; S.Meghelli Let Us Be Moors: Race, Islam, and 'Connected Histories'; H.Aidi Constructing Masculinity: Interactions between Islam and African-American Youth Since C. Eric Lincoln; R.B.Turner Through Sunni Women's Eyes: Black Feminism and the Nation of Islama; J.Karim Black Arabic: Some Notes on African American Muslims and the Arabic Language; S.A.Khabeer Lights, Camera, Suspension: The Story of Chris Jackson's Odyssey; Z.Grewal Protect Ya Neck: Muslims and the Carceral Imagination in the Age of Guantanamo; S.Daulatzai PART III: URBAN ENCOUNTERS Overlapping Diasporas, Multiracial Lives: South Asian Muslims in U.S. Communities of Color, 1890-1970; V.Bald African 'Soul Brothers' in the Hood: Immigration, Islam and the Black Encounter; Z.Abdullah The BlackStone Legacy: Islam and the Rise of Ghetto Cosmopolitanism; R.Nashashibi Jihadis in the Hood: Race, Urban Islam and the War on Terror; H.Aidi PART IV: CONCLUSION Rediscovering Malcolm's Life: A Historian's Adventures in Living History; M.Marable About the Authors