Early Muslims

Habeeb Akande, Illuminating the Darkness: Blacks and North Africans in Islam (2012)

Abu Uthman Amr Ibn Bahr Al-Jahiz and Vincent J. Cornell (translator), Book of the Glory of the Black Race (1981)

Nehemia Levtzion, Ancient Ghana and Mali, 2nd ed. (1980)

Nehemia Levtzion and J.F.P. Hopkins (eds.), Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History (2011)

Ahmad Mubarak and Dawud Walid, Centering Black Narrative: Black Muslim Nobles Among the Early Pious Muslims (2017)

Charles Pellat, The Life and Works of al-Jahiz: Translations of Selected Texts (1969)

Blaine D. Pope, The Book of Heraclius (2016)

David Robinson, Muslim Societies in African History: New Approaches to African History (2004)

Yusuf J. Yasin, al-Sawad al-A’Dham: Black Muslims in the Early Days of Islam (2016)

Dawud Walid, “7 Luminous Black Companions of the Prophet”, Muslim Matters (Feb. 20, 2015)

http://muslimmatters.org/2015/02/20/7-luminous-black-companions-of-the-prophet/
Dawud Walid, “Why Centering Muslims Who were ‘Black’ in Early Islamic History Matters”, Al-Madina Institute (Feb. 10, 2016) http://almadinainstitute.org/blog/why-centering-muslims-who-were-black-in-early-islamic-history-matters/