Islam in America: A Bibliography
For more information about Muslims in the U.S., from early history to modern times, see the following scholarly works. They should be available in your local or university library, or from many Islamic bookstores:
Overviews:
African-American
Islam by Aminah Beverly McCloud (Routledge, 1995)
Deeper Roots: Muslims in the Americas and the Caribbean From Before Columbus to
the Present by Abdullah Hakim Quick (Ta-Ha Publishers, 1996)
Islam
in the African-American Experience by Richard Brent Turner (Indiana
University Press, 1997)
Islam in America by Jane I. Smith (Columbia University Press, 1999)
Islam in North America: A Sourcebook, Koszegi & Melton, eds.
(Garland, 1992)
Islam in the United States of America by Sulayman S. Nyang (Kazi
Publications, 1999)
Muslim Almanac: A Reference Work on the History, Faith, Culture and Peoples of
Islam, Azim A. Nanji, ed. (Gale Research, 1996)
The Muslim of America, Yvonne Haddad, ed. (Oxford University Press, 1991)
Muslim Communities in North America by Yvonne Haddad and Jane Idleman
Smith (State University of New York Press, 1994)
Muslims in America: Seven Centuries of History (1312-1998) by Amir Nashid
Ali Muhammad (Amana Publications, 1998)
Slavery Years:
African
Muslims in Antebellum America: Transatlantic Stories and Spiritual Struggles
by Allan D. Austin (Routledge, 1997)
Disforming the American Canon: African-Arabic Slave Narratives and the
Vernacular by Ronald A.T. Judy and Wahneema Lubiano (University of Minnesota
Press, 1993)
Islam, Nationalism, and Slavery by Adib Rashad (Writers Inc.
International, 1995)
Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas by Sylviane
A. Diouf (New York University Press, 1998)
Modern Times:
A
Century of Islam in America by Yvonne Haddad (Muslim World Today
Occasional Paper No. 4 - out of print)
American Jihad: Islam After Malcolm X by Steven Barboza (Image Books, 1995)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley (Random House, 1975)
In the
Name of Elijah Muhammad: Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam by Mattias
Gardell (Duke University Press, 1996)
Films:
Deeper
Roots: Muslims in the Americas Before Columbus, by Soundvision
Islam in Africa, by Soundvision
Muslims
in America: the Misunderstood Millions, by ABC's Nightline (1995)

