Muslim pan-Africanists shaped early American Islam through pan-Asian and UNIA ties

Evidence

Dus é Mohamed Ali (1866–1945), the founder of the African Times and Orient Review , was another. Ali traveled the United States first as a Shakespearean actor in the nineteenth century and returned from Great Britain to become a foreign affairs columnist for Marcus Garvey’s Negro World in New York in 1922. … In 1926, Ali became secretary of the American Asiatic Association, also called the America–Asia Society, which apparently gained support from the Iranian charg é d’affaires, the mayor of Detroit, and the Egyptian ambassador in Washington. But unlike Sadiq, Ali may have left little evidence of his impact on the development of Islam in the United States when he departed for Nigeria in 1931. Once there, Ali emerged as an elder statesman of the pan-African movement. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 381

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s project mapping how early American Islam intersected with Black nationalism (Garvey’s UNIA), relevant to the pivot from interrogating Islam to examining the fearing subject’s racial context. — connects to: Immigrant Muslim missionaries personally bridged Indian and Black American Islam movements — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 179; Black nationalist movements revived Islam among African Americans in the 1920s