Journal article
The Ahmadiyya Mission to Blacks in the United States in the 1920s
The Journal of religious thought, Vol.44(2), pp.50-66
01/01/1988
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to analyze the Ahmadiyya mission to the United States in the 1920s, with special reference to its impact on Afro-American religious consciousness. There were three strands of interpretation in the development of Islam in the United States in that decade. The first, the conservative, or Sunni Islam, of the Muslim immigrants from the Middle East, was orthodox and universalist. The second, the Moorish American Science Temple Movement, was a heterodox and racialist interpretation of Islam. The third strand, and the focal point of this study, the Ahmadiyya movement, was a heterodox and universalist version of Islam that was brought to the Afro-American community by missionaries from India. The success of the Ahmadiyya movement in the Afro-American community would not have been possible without the internationalist perspective of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) which, in the 1920s, influenced Afro-Americans to think of themselves in concert with Africans and the "darker races of the world" over against white Europeans and Americans.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Ahmadiyya Mission to Blacks in the United States in the 1920s
- Creators
- Richard Turner
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Journal of religious thought, Vol.44(2), pp.50-66
- ISSN
- 0022-4235
- eISSN
- 2169-5105
- Publisher
- School of Religion, Howard University
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/1988
- Academic Unit
- African American Studies; Classics and Religious Studies; International Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984398559102771
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