Black Pilgrimage to Islam by Robert Dannin

Black Pilgrimage to Islam by Robert Dannin is a comprehensive ethnographic study of African-American Muslims, drawing on hundreds of interviews conducted over several years. It offers a rare and detailed look inside a world that is little understood: the beliefs, culture and daily lives of black Muslims in America.

The book shows that the well-known Nation of Islam represents only a small part of the picture. Many more African-Americans are drawn to Islamic orthodoxy, with its strict adherence to the Quran, and the book follows them from the oldest continuing Muslim institution in America to a Muslim village, and inside prisons, where the attraction of Islam is heard in powerful first-hand testimony. It also examines the aftermath of the assassination of Malcolm X and the ongoing tensions between the Nation of Islam and orthodox Muslims.

Readers will explore:

• The history and diversity of African-American Islam
• Conversion narratives told in Muslims’ own words
• Orthodox Islam alongside the Nation of Islam
• Faith, community and identity in black America

This book is well suited to readers interested in Islam in America, African-American history and religious ethnography, and to students of American religion and society. Order online from Books Garden with cash on delivery in Dhaka and delivery across Bangladesh.