A History of Islam in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Islam in America write by Kambiz GhaneaBassiri. This book was released on 2010-04-19. A History of Islam in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces the history of Muslims in the US and their waves of immigration and conversion across five centuries.
The Practice of Islam in America
The Practice of Islam in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Practice of Islam in America write by Edward E. Curtis IV. This book was released on 2017-12-05. The Practice of Islam in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Muslims have always been part of the United States, but very little is known about how Muslim Americans practice their religion. How do they pray? What's it like to go on pilgrimage to Mecca? What rituals accompany the birth of a child, a wedding, or the death of a loved one? What holidays do Muslims celebrate and what charities do they support? How do they learn about the Qur'an? [This book] introduces readers to the way Islam is lived in the United States, offering ... portraits of Muslim American life passages, ethical actions, religious holidays, prayer, pilgrimage, and other religious activities"--Back cover.
Muslims and the Making of America
Muslims and the Making of America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Muslims and the Making of America write by Amir Hussain. This book was released on 2016. Muslims and the Making of America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. --J. Ryan Parker "The Midwest Book Review"
American Islam
American Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Islam write by Paul M. Barrett. This book was released on 2007-12-26. American Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Vivid, dramatic portraits of Muslims in America in the years after 9/11, as they define themselves in a religious subculture torn between moderation and extremism There are as many as six million Muslims in the United States today. Islam (together with Christianity and Judaism) is now an American faith, and the challenges Muslims face as they reconcile their intense and demanding faith with our chaotic and permissive society are recognizable to all of us. From West Virginia to northern Idaho, American Islam takes readers into Muslim homes, mosques, and private gatherings to introduce a population of striking variety. The central characters range from a charismatic black imam schooled in the militancy of the Nation of Islam to the daughter of an Indian immigrant family whose feminist views divided her father's mosque in West Virginia. Here are lives in conflict, reflecting in different ways the turmoil affecting the religion worldwide. An intricate mixture of ideologies and cultures, American Muslims include immigrants and native born, black and white converts, those who are well integrated into the larger society and those who are alienated and extreme in their political views. Even as many American Muslims succeed in material terms and enrich our society, Islam is enmeshed in controversy in the United States, as thousands of American Muslims have been investigated and interrogated in the wake of 9/11. American Islam is an intimate and vivid group portrait of American Muslims in a time of turmoil and promise.
A History of Islam in America
A History of Islam in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Islam in America write by Kambiz GhaneaBassiri. This book was released on 2010-04-19. A History of Islam in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Muslims 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.
