Black routes to Islam / edited by Manning Marable and Hishaam D. Aidi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. The Early Muslim Presence and Its Significance / Hishaam D. Aidi and Manning Marable -- I. Geographies and the Political Imagination -- 1. Locating Palestine in Pre-1948: Black Internationalism / Alex Lubin -- 2. Black Orientalism: Its Genesis, Aims, and Significance for American Islam / Sherman A. Jackson -- 3. Islamism and Its African American Muslim Critics: Black Muslims in the Era of the Arab Cold War / Edward E. Curtis IV -- 4. East of the Sun (West of the Moon): Islam, the Ahmadis, and African America / Moustafa Bayoumi -- 5. Representing Permanent War: Black Power's Palestine and the End(s) of Civil Rights / Keith P. Feldman -- II. Solidarity and Resistance -- 6. From Harlem to Algiers: Transnational Solidarities between the African American Freedom Movement and Algeria, 1962-1978 / Samir Meghelli -- 7. Let Us Be Moors: Race, Islam, and "Connected Histories" / Hishaam D. Aidi -- 8. Constructing Masculinity: Interactions between Islam and African American Youth Since C. Eric Lincoln's The Black Muslims in America / Richard Brent Turner -- 9. Through Sunni Women's Eyes: Black Feminism and the Nation of Islam / Jamillah Karim -- 10. Black Arabic: Some Notes on African American Muslims and the Arabic Language / Su'ad Abdul Khabeer -- 11. Lights, Camera, Suspension: Freezing the Frame on the Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf-Anthem Controversy / Zareena Grewal -- 12. Protect Ya Neck (Remix): Muslims and the Carceral Imagination in the Age of Guantanamo / Sohail Daulatzai -- III. Urban Encounters -- 13. Overlapping Diasporas, Multiracial Lives: South Asian Muslims in U.S. Communities of Color, 1880-1970 / Vivek Bald -- 14. West African "Soul Brothers" in Harlem: Immigration, Islam, and the Black Encounter / Zain Abdullah -- 15. The Blackstone Legacy: Islam and the Rise of Ghetto Cosmopolitanism / Rami Nashashibi -- 16. Jihadis in the Hood: Race, Urban Islam, and the War on Terror / Hishaam D. Aidi -- IV. Conclusion -- 17. Rediscovering Malcolm's Life: A Historian's Adventures in Living History / Manning Marable.