Islam in Urban 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 Islam in Urban America write by Garbi Schmidt. This book was released on 2004. Islam in Urban America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years, world events have trained a harsh spotlight on the Muslim religion and its adherents. The misunderstanding and bias against Muslims in the United States not only persists but has deepened. In this detailed study of an immigrant community in Chicago, Garbi Schmidt considers the formation and meaning of an "American Islam." This vivid portrait of the people and the institutions that draw them together contributes to the academic literature on ethnic and religious identity at the same time as it depicts an immigrant community's struggle against bias and forces that threaten its cohesion. Chicago has long been home to Muslim immigrants from numerous countries in the Middle East and South Asia. For some members of these groups religion carries more weight than ethnic identity in the American context and enables them to form and participate in a broad spectrum of institutions that support their religious and social interests. Schmidt offers her observations of the schools and student associations that serve young Muslims as well as the social, religious, and political organizations that serve adults. By looking at the ways in which children, adolescents, and adults come together in these institutions, she is able to show the dynamic process in which a variegated American Muslim identity takes shape. Readers will come away from this book with a better understanding of the ideological and cultural differences among Muslims and a greater appreciation of their struggles in becoming Americans. Author note: Garbi Schmidt is a senior researcher and coordinator of the ethnic minorities initiative at the Danish National Institute of Social Research, Copenhagen.
Muslim American City
Muslim American City - 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 Muslim American City write by Alisa Perkins. This book was released on 2020-07-07. Muslim American City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores how Muslim Americans test the boundaries of American pluralism In 2004, the al-Islah Islamic Center in Hamtramck, Michigan, set off a contentious controversy when it requested permission to use loudspeakers to broadcast the adhān, or Islamic call to prayer. The issue gained international notoriety when media outlets from around the world flocked to the city to report on what had become a civil battle between religious tolerance and Islamophobic sentiment. The Hamtramck council voted unanimously to allow mosques to broadcast the adhān, making it one of the few US cities to officially permit it through specific legislation. Muslim American City explores how debates over Muslim Americans’ use of both public and political space have challenged and ultimately reshaped the boundaries of urban belonging. Drawing on more than ten years of ethnographic research in Hamtramck, which boasts one of the largest concentrations of Muslim residents of any American city, Alisa Perkins shows how the Muslim American population has grown and asserted itself in public life. She explores, for example, the efforts of Muslim American women to maintain gender norms in neighborhoods, mosques, and schools, as well as Muslim Americans’ efforts to organize public responses to municipal initiatives. Her in-depth fieldwork incorporates the perspectives of both Muslims and non-Muslims, including Polish Catholics, African American Protestants, and other city residents. Drawing particular attention to Muslim American expressions of religious and cultural identity in civil life—particularly in response to discrimination and stereotyping—Perkins questions the popular assumption that the religiosity of Muslim minorities hinders their capacity for full citizenship in secular societies. She shows how Muslims and non-Muslims have, through their negotiations over the issues over the use of space, together invested Muslim practice with new forms of social capital and challenged nationalist and secularist notions of belonging.
Islam Among Urban Blacks
Islam Among Urban Blacks - 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 Islam Among Urban Blacks write by Michael Nash. This book was released on 2008. Islam Among Urban Blacks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the evolution of Muslim community development in Newark, New Jersey. It is an historical account of the efforts of a diverse community that over several decades grappled with the challenge of establishing a respected place for their Islamic lifestyle within the United States. Further, it is a story linked closely to the experience of African Americans who have claimed Islam as their religion and struggled to create and to maintain an identity in the social fabric of Newark's twentieth-century Black religious culture. The complexities of race, identity, inter-religious and intra-religious relations are the four central themes explored.
Islam in the African-American Experience
Islam in the African-American Experience - 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 Islam in the African-American Experience write by Richard Brent Turner. This book was released on 2003. Islam in the African-American Experience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The involvement of African Americans with Islam reaches back to the earliest days of the African presence in North America. This book explores these roots in the Middle East, West Africa and antebellum America.
Islamic Lifestyles in Urban America
Islamic Lifestyles in Urban 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 Islamic Lifestyles in Urban America write by Mika'il Stewart Saadiq. This book was released on 2015-05-22. Islamic Lifestyles in Urban America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of Commentaries, Articles, and Notes supported by proofs from the Qur'an and Way of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh); with some focus on the experiences of Black Americans
