The Transnational Ethics of Four Muslim American Women in Jordan

The passage of the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act had important consequences for US society as perhaps over a million foreign-born Muslims immigrated to the United States by the end of the twentieth century. In the 1960s, as we have seen, the most well-known Muslims in the United States were African American men such as Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X. The movement through which both men became Muslim, the Nation of Islam, not only had the most significant media presence of any Muslim group but also operated the largest number of religious congregations and schools of any national Muslim organization.