Including the writings of esteemed academics such as Sherman A. Jackson, Moustafa Bayoumi, Jamillah Karim, Sohail Daulatzai and Vivek Bald to name but a few. The authors included in this volume explore different dimensions of the more than century-long interaction between Black America and Islam. Featuring topics like nineteenth century narratives of African American travelers to the Holy Land, Islam's role in urban movements, relations between African Americans and Muslim immigrants, racial politics of American Islam with modern US foreign policy as well as many other works that touch on everything from music culture to gender dynamics.