Muslims in America: Race, Politics, and Community Building (Amana Islam in America, 1)

In a flowing and engaging style, Mbaye Lo provides us with a fascinating historical account of the growth of Islam in America. He reveals the different factors and figures that interacted to shape the evolution and growth of the American Muslim communities in the wider contexts of race, civil rights, identity and politics. Mabye takes the mosque as his paradigm to analyze and synthesize the growth of Muslim communities in Cleveland; how their mosques developed over time, the challenges they faced, in moving to mainstream Islam and developing a multi-ethnic community. An added feature of the book is a survey to answer questions about what motivated converts to Islam, who introduced them to Islam and how Muslims are distributed across different ethnic groups and mosques.

Mbaye Lo, a native of Senegal, is lecturer in Arabic Studies at Kent State University, and a PhD. candidate at the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University. He holds B.A. in Arabic Language and Literature and 2 M.A. in Arabic language, and African Studies from Khartoum International Institute for Arabic Language and the International University of Africa, Khartoum. He also holds a third master's degree in American History from Cleveland State University.

Mbaye has published extensively in both Arabic and English in national and international journals, and on issues related to culture, history and politics. His first Arabic book, Language and Religious Themes in the African Literature, is widely considered an authoritative examination of Arabic literature of Africa.