Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the early Muslim presence and its significance / Hishaam D. Aidi and Manning Marable -- Locating Palestine in pre-1948: black internationalism / Alex Lubin -- Black orientalism: its genesis, aims, and significance for American Islam / Sherman A. Jackson -- Islamism and its African American Muslim critics: black Muslims in the era of Arab cold war / Edward E. Curtis IV -- East of the sun (west of the moon): Islam, the Ahmadis, and African America / Moustafa Bayoumi -- Representing permanent war: black power's Palestine and the end(s) of civil rights / Keith P. Feldman -- From Harlem to Algiers: transnational solidarities between the African American freedom movement and Algeria, 1962-1978 / Samir Meghelli -- Let us be Moors: race, Islam, and "connected histories" / Hishaam D. Aidi -- Constructing masculinity: interactions between Islam and African American youth since Eric Lincoln's the Black Muslims in America / Richard Brent Turner -- Through Sunni women's eyes: black feminism and the Nation of Islam / Jamilla Karim -- Black Arabic: some notes on African American Muslims and the Arabic language / Su'ad Abdul Khabeer -- Lights, camera, suspension: freezing the frame on the Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf-Anthem controversy / Zareena Grewal -- Protect ya neck (remix): Muslims and carceral imagination in the age of Guantánamo / Sohail Daulatzai -- Overlapping diasporas, multiracial lives: South Asian Muslims in U.S. communities of color, 1880-1970 / Vivek Bald -- West African "soul brothers" in Harlem: immigration, Islam, and the black encounter / Zain Abdullah -- The Blackstone legacy: Islam and the rise of ghetto cosmopolitanism / Rami Nashashibi -- Jihadis in the hood: race, urban Islam, and the war on terror / Hishaam D. Aidi -- Rediscovering Malcolm's life: a historian's adventures in living history / Manning Marable.