Black Muslim Religion in the Nation of Islam, 1960-1975

Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam came to America's attention in the 1960s and 1970s as a radical separatist African American social and political group. But the movement was also a religious one. Curtis offers the first comprehensive examination of the Nation of Islam's rituals, ethics, theologies, and religious narratives, showing how the movement combined elements of Afro-Eurasian Islamic traditions with African American traditions to create a new form of Islamic faith. Curtis's analysis pushes beyond essentialist ideas about what it means to be Muslim and promotes a view of the importance of local processes in identity formation and appropriations of Islamic traditions.Curtis, Edward E., IV is the author of 'Black Muslim Religion in the Nation of Islam, 1960-1975', published 2006 under ISBN 9780807857717 and ISBN 0807857718.