ABSTRACT
The Islamic World reaches from China and Indonesia across southern Asia to Yugoslavia and West Africa. It is based upon the worship of Allah, the One God, as revealed by Muhammad, his Prophet. Muslims began to arrive in the United States in the nineteenth century and established early communities in the Midwest—Detroit, Toledo, Chicago. In the 1960s the community began to grow dramatically and is now approximately the same size as the Jewish community and is continuing to grow rapidly by immigration and proselytization. Significant in the growth of American Islam has been the conversion of a large number of black people attracted to Islam both as an alternative to Christianity and as a religion of equality and human rights.
