Thanks to Iran’s Islamic revolution, 9/11, large-scale immigration and much else, Americans have learned a great deal about the Islam of Muhammad and the Quran over recent decades. Terms such as Ramadan, shariah and jihad, for example, have become widely familiar. Fewer, however, know about an indigenous American form of Islam, the black folk religion that began about a century ago in cities like Newark, Chicago and Detroit, and the inspiration behind Louis Farrakhan and the Million Man March. While its later evolution is...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 29, 2020 22:18 UTC