The Lost-Found Nation of Islam in America

Clifton E. Marsh

• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Year: 2000
• eBook ISBN: 9780810881426
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: Social Sciences

This important work on American Black Islam, previously published in cloth, is now available in trade paperback. With the 1995 Million Man March in Washington, the Nation of Islam and its often controversial leader, Minister Louis Farrakhan, have reemphasized their importance as a major voice of the African-American community. Marsh examines the rise, fall, and rebirth of the oldest, most powerful, and significant Black nationalist organization in the United States. New chapters focus on the ideological splits in the Nation of Islam during the 1970s, the growth of the Nation in the 1980s, and the expanding influence and power of the organization in the 1990s. A key chapter examines the continuing legacy of African nationalist thought from 1815 to 1994, places Farrakhan in historical context, and examines his addition to the African nationalist legacy of Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. DuBois. The appendixes include interviews with important members of the Nation of Islam, Imam, Wallace D. Muhammad (son of Elijah Muhammad) and Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad, the national spokesman for minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam; and a directory of Masjids in the United States and abroad. With bibliography and index.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Tables
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Black Nationalism as a Social Movement
• Chapter 2 Social Conditions, 1914–1930
• Chapter 3 The Moorish Science Temple, 1913–1929
• Chapter 4 The Nation of Islam, 1930–1959
• Chapter 5 Minister Malcolm X Shabazz, 1925–1965
• Chapter 6 The Nation of Islam and the World Community of Al-Islam in the West, 1965–1980
• Chapter 7 Minister Louis Farrakhan, National Representative of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam: the Continuation of the African Nationalist Legacy, 1815–1994
• Chapter 8 A Historical and Philosophical Analysis on the Ideological Dispute between Imam Warith Deen Muhammad and Minister Louis Farrakhan, 1974–1980
• Chapter 9 The Growth, Development, and Change of the American Muslim Mission and the Nation of Islam, 1980–1990
• Chapter 10 The Nation of Islam from the Halls of the U.S. Congress to the Black Star Square in Accra, Ghana, 1990–1994
• Afterword
• Appendix A Interview with Imam Wallace D. Muhammad
• Appendix B Interview with Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad, National Spokesperson for Minister Louis Farrakhan and Minister of Health and Human Resources for the Nation of Islam, September 9, 1994—Washington, D.C.
• Appendix C Directory of Masjids in the United States and Abroad, the World Community of Al-Islam in the West, 1979
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author