Islam in the African American Religious Experience (TRE 535)
(10/05/2020-12/11/2020)
Prerequisite Courses
Course Memo
This course looks at Islam as one of the major monotheistic religions of the world, and African American adaptations in the United States. We do a brief survey of the founding and establishment of Islam as a major world religion. We do a survey of the various expressions of Islam among African Americans in the United States. We consider the Nation of Islam both as a religious movement and as an expression of Black nationalism.