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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450352503321

Autore

Dannin Robert <1952->

Titolo

Black pilgrimage to Islam [[electronic resource] /] / Robert Dannin ; photographs by Jolie Stahl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002

ISBN

1-280-53214-9

0-19-803362-1

0-19-530302-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Disciplina

297.8/7/0973

Soggetti

Islam - United States - History

African American Muslims - History

Muslim converts - United States - History

Black Muslims - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-310) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I. TRACKING THE RED FEZ; PART II. CONVERSION SAGAS; Conclusion: African Diaspora and Muslim Umma; Glossary of Arab-Islamic Terminology; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 cult-like Nation of Islam represents only a small part of the picture. Many more African-Americans are drawn to Islamic orthodoxy, with its strict adherence to the Qur'an. Dannin takes us to the First Cleveland Mosque, the oldest continuing Muslim institution in America, on to a permament Muslim vi