A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World OrderMuslims began arriving in the New World long before the rise of the Atlantic slave trade. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri's fascinating book traces the history of Muslims in the United States and their different waves of immigration and conversion across five centuries, through colonial and antebellum America, through world wars and civil rights struggles, to the contemporary era. The book tells the often deeply moving stories of individual Muslims and their lives as immigrants and citizens within the broad context of the American religious experience, showing how that experience has been integral to the evolution of American Muslim institutions and practices. This is a unique and intelligent portrayal of a diverse religious community and its relationship with America. It will serve as a strong antidote to the current politicized dichotomy between Islam and the West, which has come to dominate the study of Muslims in America and further afield. |
Contents
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2 Islamic Beliefs and Practice in Colonial and Antebellum America | 59 |
3 Conflating Race Religion and Progress | 95 |
4 Race Ethnicity Religion and Citizenship | 135 |
5 Rooting Islam in America | 165 |
6 Islam and American Civil Religion in
the Aftermath of World War II | 228 |
7 A New Religious America and a PostColonial Muslim World | 272 |
8 Between Experience and Politics | 327 |
Epilogue | 379 |
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