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Muhammad Abdul-Rauf, Bilal Ibn Rabah: A Leading Companion of the Prophet Muhammad (1977)
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Mohammed Akberali, Biography of Imam Muhammad al Jawad: A Short History of Imam Muhammad al Jawad (2014)
Terry Alford, Prince Among Slaves: The Story of an African Prince Sold into Slavery in the American South, 30th Anniversary ed. (2007)
Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Ali: The Greatest My Own Story (2015)
Baqir Shair al-Qarashi, The Life of Imam Muhammad al-Jawad (2001)
Thomas Bluett, Some Memoirs of the Life of Job, the Son of Solomon, the High Priest of Boonda in Africa Who was a Slave About Two Years in Maryland; and Afterwards Being Brought to England was Set Fee and Sent to His Native Land in the Year 1734 (1734) http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/bluett/bluett.html/
Herb Boyd and Ilyasah Al-Shabazz (editors), The Diary of Malcolm X: El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, 1964 (2014)
Jean Boyd, The Caliph’s Sister: Nana Asma’u 1793-1865: Teacher, Poet and Islamic Leader (1990)
Louis Brenner, West African Sufi: The Religious Heritage and Spiritual Search of Cerno Bokar Saalif Taal (1984)
Claude A. Clegg III, An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad (1997)
Rodney P. Collins with A. Peter Bailey, Seventh Child: A Family Memoir of Malcolm X (2002)
Keith Ellison, My Country, ‘Tis of Thee: My Faith, My Family, Our Future (2014)
Adebisi Folorunsho, “The Portrait of Shaykh ‘Adam ‘Abdullah ‘al-’Iluri (1917-1992),” Journal of Oriental and African Studies, 22 (2013), pp. 97-110.
Joshua Hammer, The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts (Simon & Schuster, 2016)
Omar ibn Said (ed. Ala Alryyes), A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar ibn Said (2011)
James H. Johnston, From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family (2012)
Hilal Kara and Abdullah Kara, Bilal al-Habashi: An Exemplar of Patience and Devotion (2017)
Robin Law and Paul E. Lovejoy (editors), The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: His Passage from Slavery to Freedom in Africa and America (2006)
Florence H. Leninsohn, Looking for Farrakhan (2009)
Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (2011)
Leigh Montville, Sting Like a Bee: Muhammad vs. The United States of America, 1966-1971 (2017)
D.T. Niane, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali, revised edition (2006)
Bruce Perry, Malcolm: The Life of a Man who Changed Black America (1992)
Abdullah Hakim Quick, In the Heart of a West African Islamic Revival: Shaykh Uthman Dan Fodio (1774-1804) (2007)
Patricia Raybon and Alana Raybon, Undivided: A Muslim Daughter, Her Christian Mother, Their Path to Peace (2015)
Russell Rickford, Betty Shabazz Surviving Malcolm X: A Journey of Strength from Wife to Widow to Heroine (2005)
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Charles Smith, Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali (2007)
William Strickland, Malcolm X: Make it Plain (1994)
Sonsyrea Tate, Little X: Growing Up in the Nation of Islam (2005)
Akbarall Thobhani, Mansa Musa: The Golden King of Ancient Mali (1998)
Leah Vernon, Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim (2019)
Amir Webb, Musa: Mansa of Mali: The Extended Version (2018)
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