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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)

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