M. Marable & Kenneth A. Loparo 
Black Routes to Islam 

Starting with 19th century narratives of African American travelers to the Holy Land, the following chapters probe Islam’s role in urban social movements, music and popular culture, relations between African Americans and Muslim immigrants, and the racial politics of American Islam with the ongoing war in Iraq.

Table of Content

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 Black Stone 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

About the author

Hishaam D. Aidi is a lecturer at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.