In Radical Theories of Early Islamic History, we explore controversial perspectives that challenge long-held beliefs. Finally, The Umayyad Role in Defining Islam investigates how early leaders ...

(RNS) — Where does the history of Muslims in America begin? With enslaved African Muslims brought to the U.S. in the 1600s? In the 1930s, when the Nation of Islam was established by Wallace Fard ...

A New History from Muhammad to the Present’ (Princeton Univ., May), the historian chronicles the religion’s 1,400-year evolution through profiles of figures who showcase its diversity.

One such group black nationalist group was the Nation of Islam – a religious and political organisation. The Nation of Islam argued that equality for black Americans could only be achieved by ...