Front Matter

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Usage xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912) and the Paradox of Islam 21
7. Noble Drew Ali (1886-1929) and the Establishment of Black Particularistic Islam 45
8. Elijah Muhammad (1897-1975) and the Absolutism of Black Particularistic Islam 63
9. Islamic Universalism, Black Particularism, and the Dual Identity of Malcolm X (1925-1965) 85
10. Wallace D. Muhammad (b. 1933), Sunni Islamic Reform, and the Continuing Problem of Particularism 107
11. Toward an Islam for One People and Many 129
12. Notes 141
13. Selected Bibliography 159
14. Index 169