Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas

Black Crescent

Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas

Beginning with Latin America in the fifteenth century, this book is a social history of the experiences of African Muslims and their descendants throughout the Americas, including the Caribbean. The record under slavery is examined, as is the post-slavery period into the twentieth century. The experiences vary, arguably due to some extent to the Old World context. Muslim revolts in Brazil are also discussed, especially in 1835, by way of a nuanced analysis. The second part of the book looks at the emergence of Islam among the African-descended in the United States in the twentieth century, with successive chapters on Noble Drew Ali, Elijah Muhammad, and Malcolm X, with a view to explaining how orthodoxy arose from varied unorthodox roots.
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Author Michael A. Gomez
Country United Kingdom
Publication Date 05/07/2012
Pages 265
Edition first
Size 14.53 x 2.34 x 21.67 cm
About the Author Michael A. Gomez (born 1955) is a Silver Professor at New York University, noted for his work on West Africa, the African diaspora, Islam, and slavery.
Publisher Address ‎ Cambridge University Press
ISBN ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01JXO7FE2