Author: Timothy MarrPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521852935
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
An analysis of the historical roots of today's conflicts between the US and the Muslim world.
The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism
Author: Timothy MarrPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521852935
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
An analysis of the historical roots of today's conflicts between the US and the Muslim world.
Being Muslim
Author: Sylvia Chan-MalikPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479850608
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
"Four american moslem ladies": early U.S. Muslim women in the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, 1920-1923 -- Insurgent domesticity: race and gender in representations of NOI Muslim women during the Cold War era -- Garments for one another: Islam and marriage in the lives of Betty Shabazz and Dakota Staton -- Chadors, feminists, terror: constructing a U.S. American discourse of the veil -- A third language: Muslim feminism in Smerica -- Conclusion: Soul Flower Farm
A History of Islam in America
Author: Kambiz GhaneaBassiriPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521849640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Traces the history of Muslims in the US and their waves of immigration and conversion across five centuries.
Muslims and the Making of America
Author: Amir HussainPublisher:
ISBN: 9781481306232
Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"There has never been an America without Muslims"--so begins Amir Hussain, one of the most important scholars and teachers of Islam in America. Hussain, who is himself an American Muslim, contends that Muslims played an essential role in the creation and cultivation of the United States. Memories of 9/11 and the rise of global terrorism fuel concerns about American Muslims. The fear of American Muslims in part stems from the stereotype that all followers of Islam are violent extremists who want to overturn the American way of life. Inherent to this stereotype is the popular misconception that Islam is a new religion to America. In Muslims and the Making of America Hussain directly addresses both of these stereotypes. Far from undermining America, Islam and American Muslims have been, and continue to be, important threads in the fabric of American life. Hussain chronicles the history of Islam in America to underscore the valuable cultural influence of Muslims on American life. He then rivets attention on music, sports, and culture as key areas in which Muslims have shaped and transformed American identity. America, Hussain concludes, would not exist as it does today without the essential contributions made by its Muslim citizens.
Good Muslim, Bad Muslim
Author: Mahmood MamdaniPublisher: Harmony
ISBN: 0385515375
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In this brilliant look at the rise of political Islam, the distinguished political scientist and anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani brings his expertise and insight to bear on a question many Americans have been asking since 9/11: how did this happen? Good Muslim, Bad Muslim is a provocative and important book that will profoundly change our understanding both of Islamist politics and the way America is perceived in the world today.
Islam and the Americas
Author: Aisha KhanPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813059941
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"A tour de force that underwrites and shifts the petrified image of Islam disseminated by mainstream media."--Walter D. Mignolo, author of The Darker Side of Western Modernity "Gives us an entirely different picture of Muslims in the Americas than can be found in the established literature. A complex glimpse of the rich diversity and historical depth of Muslim presence in the Caribbean and Latin America."--Katherine Pratt Ewing, editor of Being and Belonging: Muslim Communities in the United States since 9/11 "Finally a broad-ranging comparative work exploring the roots of Islam in the Americas! Drawing upon fresh historical and ethnographic research, this book asks important questions about the politics of culture and globalization of religion in the modern world."--Keith E. McNeal, author of Trance and Modernity in the Southern Caribbean In case studies that include the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume trace the establishment of Islam in the Americas over the past three centuries. They simultaneously explore Muslims’ lived experiences and examine the ways Islam has been shaped in the "Muslim minority" societies in the New World, including the Gilded Age’s fascination with Orientalism, the gendered interpretations of doctrine among Muslim immigrants and local converts, the embrace of Islam by African American activist-intellectuals like Malcolm X, and the ways transnational hip hop artists re-create and reimagine Muslim identities. Together, these essays challenge the typical view of Islam as timeless, predictable, and opposed to Western worldviews and value systems, showing how this religious tradition continually engages with local and global issues of culture, gender, class, and race.
Being Muslim
Author: Sylvia Chan-MalikPublisher:
ISBN: 9781479881550
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Al' America
Author: Jonathan CurielPublisher:
ISBN: 9781595584816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From a "San Francisco Chronicle" journalist comes this lively, funny, and revealing look at the little known influence of Arab and Islamic culture on America.
Muslims in America
Author: Edward E. CurtisPublisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195367561
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
A history of the Muslim presence in the United States from slaves who managed to keep their religion to the varied communities of the twenty-first century covers the role of converts and immigrants in every stage of American history.
Afghanistan
Author: Thomas BarfieldPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691154414
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Traces the political history of Afghanistan from the sixteenth century to the present, looking at what has united the people as well as the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them.