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Blackislamsyllabus #BlackIslamSyllabus This project is curated by Dr. Kayla Renée Wheeler and was inspired by Prof. Najeeba ​ ​ Syeed, #BlackInMSA, and Muslim ARC. The goal of this project is to provide teachers, professors, researchers, journalists, and people interested in learning more about Islam with resources on Black Muslims to promote a more inclusive approach to the study of Islam. If you would like to contribute to this project, post your recommendations on Twitter using #BlackIslamSyllabus or email me at kaylar824@gmail.com. If you would like to support efforts to transform the syllabus into a website that will include author video interviews, book reviews, and a more accessible layout or thank me for my labor, please donate: paypal.me/kaylareneewheeler ​ Islam in the Americas Sultana Afroz, “From Moors to Marronage: The Islamic Heritage of the Maroons in Jamaica”, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 19/2 (1999), pp. 161-179 ​ Sultana Afroz, “Invisible Yet Invincible: The Muslim Ummah in Jamaica”, Journal of Muslim ​ Minority Affairs, 23/1 (2003), pp. 211-222 ​ Hishaam Aidi, “Jihadis in the Hood: Race, Urban Islam and the War on Terror” http://www.merip.org/mer/mer224/jihadis-hood Zaheer Ali, “Return to Roots: African Americans Return to Islam through Many Paths”, Islamic ​ Horizons (July/August 2005), pp. 16-35. ​ Herbert Berg, “Mythmaking in the African American Muslim Context: The Moorish Science Temple, the Nation of Islam, and the American Society of Muslims”, Journal of the American ​ Academy of Religion, 73/3 (2005), pp. 685-703. ​ Sylvia Chan-Malik, Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam ​ (2018) James L. Conyers, Jr. and Abul Pitre (editors), Africana Islamic Studies (2016) ​ ​ Ashon Crawley, Peace in Sapelo: On Black Islam and Black Christianity”, Hampton Institution, ​ ​ http://www.hamptoninstitution.org/peace-in-sapelo.html#.WGMhCBsrK03 Edward E. Curtis IV, Muslims in America: A Short History (2009) ​ ​ Robert Dannin, Black Pilgrimage to Islam (2005) ​ ​ Asad el Malik, Bismillah & Bean Pies: How Black Americans Crafted an Islamic Expression ​ through Nationalism (2016) ​ Expressions of Islam in Contemporary African American Communities, The Fourth Annual ​ Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Conference (April 7-8, 2012) http://www.islamicstudies.harvard.edu/expressions-of-islam-in-contemporary-african-american-c ommunities/ Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World ​ Order (2010) ​ Michael Gomez, Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the ​ Americas (2005) ​ Aliyah Khan, Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean (2020) ​ ​ Manning Marable and Hishaam Aidi (editors), Black Routes to Islam (2009) ​ ​ Aminah McCloud, African American Islam (1994). ​ ​ Al-Hajj Wali Akbar Muhammad, Muslims in Georgia 1771-1965: A Historical View (2012) ​ ​ Kathleen Malone O’Connor, “The Islamic Jesus: Messiahhood and Human Divinity in African American Muslim Exegesis”, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 66/3 (Autumn ​ ​ 1998), pp. 493-532 Abdul Noor, The Supreme Understanding: The Teachings of Islam in North America (2002) ​ ​ Samory Rashid, Black Muslims in the U.S.: History, Politics, and the Struggle of a Community ​ (2013) Richard Brent Turner, Islam in the African-American Experience (2003) ​ ​ Enslaved Africans Muhammed Abdullah al-Ahari, Bilali Muhammad: Muslim Jurisprudist in Antebellum Georgia ​ (2010) Sultana Afroz, “The Role of Islam in the Abolition of Slavery and in the Development of British Capitalism”, The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 29/1, pp. 1-29 ​ ​ Muhammad A. Al-Ahari (editor), Five Classic Muslim Slave Narratives (2011) ​ ​ Allan D. Austin, African Muslims in Antebellum America: A Sourcebook (1984) ​ ​ Allan D. Austin, African Muslims in Antebellum America: Transatlantic Stories and Spiritual ​ Struggles (1997) ​ Manuel Barcia, “West African Islam in Colonial Cuba”, Slavery & Abolition, 35/2 (2014) pp. ​ ​ 292-305 Khaled A. Beydoun, “Antebellum Islam”, Howard Law Journal, 58/1 (2014) ​ ​ Ray Crook, “Bilali-The Old Man of Sapelo Island: Between Africa and Georgia”, Wadabagei: A ​ Journal of the Caribbean and Its Diaspora, 10/2 (Spring 2007), pp. 40-55 ​ Robert O. Collins, “The African Slave Trade to Asia and the Indian Ocean Islands”, African and ​ Asian Studies, 5/3-4 (2006), pp. 325-347 ​ Sylviane A. Diouf, Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas, 15th ​ Anniversary Edition (2013) ​ Chouki el Hamel, Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam (2012) ​ ​ Allan G.B. Fisher and Humphrey J. Fisher, Slavery and Muslim Society in Africa (1971) ​ ​ Humphrey J. Fisher, Slavery in the HIstory of Muslim Black Africa (2001) ​ ​ Ronald Judy, Disforming The American Canon: African-Arabic Slave Narratives and the ​ Vernacular (1993) ​ Paul E. Lovejoy, “The Urban Background of Enslaved Muslims in the Americas”, Slavery & ​ Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies, 26/3 (2005), pp. 349-376. ​ Patrick Manning, Slavery and African Life: Occidental, Oriental, and African Slave Trades ​ (1990) Precious Rasheeda Muhammad, “An African Muslim Prince Goes to Boston in 1828” http://www.patheos.com/blogs/preciousmuhammad/2014/02/an-african-muslim-prince-goes-to-b oston-in-1828/ Precious Rasheeda Muhammad, “‘Oh, Allah, Operate on Us!’: Islam and the Legacy of American Slavery in Michael Wolfe (ed.), Taking Back Islam: American Muslims Reclaim Their ​ Faith (Rodale Press, 2002), pp. 129-135 ​ João José Reis (translated by Arthur Brakel), Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of ​ 1835 in Bahia (1995) ​ Ronald Segal, Islam’s Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora (2001) ​ ​ Richard Brent Turner, “African Muslim Slaves and Islam in Antebellum America”, in Juliane Hammer and Omid Safi (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to American Islam (2013), pp. 28-44 ​ ​ Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno (editors), Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of ​ Trans-Saharan Africans in 19th-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean (2011) ​ John Ralph Willis (ed.), Slaves and Slavery in Muslim Africa (1985) ​ ​ The Moorish Science Temple of America Ernest Allen Jr., “Identity and Destiny: The Formative Views of the Moorish Science Temple and the Nation of Islam” in Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and John L. Esposito (eds.), Muslims on ​ the Americanization Path? (1998), pp. 163-214. ​ Patrick D. Bowen, “Abdul Hamid Suleiman and the Origins of the Moorish Science Temple”, Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion, 2/13 (2011), pp. 1-54 ​ Emily Clark, “Noble Drew Ali’s ‘Clean and Pure Nation’: The Moorish Science Temple, Identity, and Healing”, Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, 16/3 ​ ​ (2013), pp. 31-51 Edward E. Curtis IV, “Debating the Origins of the Moorish Science Temple: Toward a New Cultural History” in Edward E. Curtis IV and Danielle Brune Sigler (ed.s), The New Black ​ Gods: Arthur Huff Fauset and the Study of African American Religions (2009) ​ Spencer Dew, “Juanita Mayo Richardson Bey: Editor, Educator, and Poetic Visionary of First-Generation Moorish Science,” Journal of Africana Religions, 2/2 (2014), pp. 184-210 ​ ​ Jacob Dorman, The Princess and the Prophet: The Secret History of Magic, Race, and Moorish ​ Muslims in America (2020) ​ Arthur Huff Fauset, Black Gods of the Metropolis: Negro Religious Cults of the Urban North ​ (1970) Susan Nance, “Mystery of the Moorish Science Temple: Southern Blacks and American Alternative Spirituality in 1920s Chicago”, Religion and American Culture: A Journal of ​ Interpretation, 12/2 (Summer 2002), pp. 123-166 ​ Susan Nance, “Respectability and Representation: The Moorish Science Temple, Morocco, and Black Public Culture in 1920s Chicago”, American Quarterly, 54/4 (2002), pp. 623-659 ​ ​ Scott J. Varda, “Drew Ali and the Moorish Science Temple of America: A Minor Rhetoric of Black Nationalism”, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 16/4 (Winter 2013), pp. 685-717 ​ ​ Nation of Islam Amy Alexander (editor), The Farrakhan Factor: African-American Writers on Leadership, ​ Nationhood, and Minister Louis Farrakhan (1998) ​ Zaheer Ali, “The Message and the Messenger: The Impact of Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Million Man March”, Koinonia 12 (Spring 2000), pp. 33-42 ​ ​ Ernest Allen Jr., “Religious Heterodoxy and Nationalist Tradition: The Continuing Evolution of the Nation of Islam”, The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research, 26/3-4 (1996), ​ ​ pp. 1-34 Ernest Allen Jr., “Satokata Takahashi and the Flowering of Black Messianic Nationalism”, The ​ Black Scholar, 24 (Winter 1994), pp. 23-46 ​ http://www.umass.edu/afroam/downloads/allen.tak.pdf Herbert Berg, Elijah Muhammad and Islam (2009) ​ ​ Zoe Colley, “‘All America is a Prison’: The Nation of Islam and the Politicization of African American Prisoners, 1955-1965”, Journal of American Studies, 48/2 (May 2014), pp. 393-415 ​ ​ Malachi D. Crawford, Black Muslims and the Law: Civil Liberties from Elijah Muhammad to ​ Muhammad Ali (2015) ​ Edward E. Curtis IV, Black Muslim Religion in the Nation of Islam, 1960-1975 (2006) ​ ​ E.U. Essien-Udom, Black Nationalism and the Search for Identity (1995) ​ ​ Karl Evanzz, The Messenger: The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad (2001) ​ ​ Fatima Fanusie, Fard Muhammad in Historical Context (2014), https://vimeo.com/90333385 ​ ​ ​ ​ Garrett Felber, Those Who Know Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, ​ and the Carceral State (2020) ​ Mattias Gardell, In the Name of Elijah Muhammad:
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