The Muslims of America
This collection brings together sixteen previously unpublished essays about the history, organization, challenges, responses, outstanding thinkers, and future prospects of the Muslim community in the United States and Canada. Both Muslims and non-Muslims are represented among the contributors, who include such leading Islamic scholars as John Esposito, Frederick Denny, Jane Smith, and John Voll. Focusing on the manner in which American Muslims adapt their institutions as they become increasingly an indigenous part of America, the essays discuss American Muslim self-images, perceptions of Muslims by non-Muslim Americans, leading American Muslim intellectuals, political activity of Muslims in America, Muslims in American prisons, Islamic education, the status of Muslim women in America, and the impact of American foreign policy on Muslims in the United States
1 online resource (x, 249 pages) : illustrations
9780195085594, 9780198023173, 9781280442131, 9781423738466, 0195085590, 0198023170, 1280442131, 1423738462
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Introduction : the Muslims of America / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
Muslim organizations in the United States / Gutbi Mahdi Ahmed
Estimate of Muslims living in America / Carol L. Stone
Perspectives of the American churches on Islam and the Muslim community in North America / Byron L. Haines
The Muslim as the "other" : representation and self-image of the Muslims in America / Abubaker al-Shingiety
Ismail R. al-Faruqi : Muslim scholar-activist / John L. Esposito
Seyyed Hossein Nasr : defender of the sacred and Islamic traditionalism / Jane I. Smith
The legacy of Fazlur Rahman / Frederick M. Denny
Political activity of Muslims in America / Steven A. Johnson
Daẁah in the West / Larry A. Poston. Muslims in prison : claims to constitutional protection of religious liberty / Kathleen Moore
Islamic education in the United States and Canada : conception and practice of the Islamic belief system / Nimat Hafez Barazangi
African-American Muslim women / Beverly Thomas McCloud
Two-way acculturation : Muslim women in America between individual choice (liminality) and community affiliation (communitas) / Marcia K. Hermansen
Islamic issues for Muslims in the United States / John O. Voll
American foreign policy in the Middle East and its impact on the identity of Arab Muslims in the United States / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
Convergence and divergence in an emergent community : a study of challenges facing U.S. Muslims / Sulayman S. Nyang
Papers presented at a conference held on the Amherst Campus of the University of Massachusetts, April 1989 and sponsored by the Dept. of History, the Near East Area Studies Program, and the Arabic Club of the university
Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1991
English