Writing Islam Back Into Our History
[n.p.]: [n.p.], 1992. [ii] 94 pp. Includes illustrations and maps. Illustrated yellow wraps, about VG+ (1” tear to top edge of rear cover, light staining, ownership inscription on ffep). INSCRIBED by the author on ffep and dated 10-9-93, with an additional two-page letter affixed by clear tape to inside of rear cover, to Dr. Taalib Muhammad (same as inscription), an Imam at the Islamic Center of Memphis and dated October 9, 1993. The letter asks him to review his book and provide either a Foreword or any constructive criticism before he takes the book to a publisher. The author at the time was a prisoner at the Northwest Correctional Facility in Tiptonville, TN, and he notes that the prison has approximately “40 Brothers in it, many of us are from Memphis and most of us accepted Islam since incarceration.” Within the book, Jaami claims to offer a history of Islam “to tear down the walls of ignorance” (ii), acknowledging in his Conclusion that “I have only begun to scratch the spacious surface of Islamic history and our place in it as an African American people” (93).
Scarce—we assume that limited copies were produced due to the author’s incarceration. No copies in commerce and only one in OCLC (Library of Congress). Item #933
Price: $375.00