In his incisive book, Islam in the African American Experience, Richard Brent Turner takes the reader through the evolution of Islam in black America. ... Turner focuses on how Islam spread to West Africa, and how it was adapted and changed by the natives. ... One thing that the Muslims offered that caught the attention of the West Africans was a chance to become literate by way of learning Arabic. ... He brings this up so that the reader may eventually link how the early differences between West African Islam and orthodox Islam would carry over to the twentieth century during the initiatio...

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