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"Pushing past stereotypes and toward the sublime, SpearIt has crafted the definitive book on Islam’s imprint on the American carceral state. With Muslim Prisoner Litigation, SpearIt seamlessly merges an untold history with unsung civil rights contributions made by incarcerated Muslims, piecing together a landmark work for scholars and advocates but also any reader committed to the spirit of justice."—Khaled A. Beydoun, author of The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims
"This book makes a groundbreaking and compelling argument that the seldomly analyzed influence of Muslims and their religion was central to prisoner rights litigation in America. SpearIt undermines the stereotypical conflation of Muslims and violence and innovatively describes the Muslim 'jihad' in America’s prisons as engaging in nonviolent litigation to win rights for Muslims and for all prisoners."—Jules Lobel, coeditor of Solitary Confinement: Effects, Practices, and Pathways toward Reform
"Muslim Prisoner Litigation importantly centers the role of Islam in the making of prison law jurisprudence, persuasively demonstrating how imprisoned Muslims challenged the carceral state and fundamentally altered the history of prisoners' rights and Islam in the United States."—Garrett Felber, author of Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State
About the author
SpearIt is Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and author of American Prisons: A Critical Primer on Culture and Conversion to Islam.
