Islam in America

Traces the story of America's Muslims from the seventeenth-century slave trade to the eighteenth-century immigration wave to the Nation of Islam. Drawing on interviews in communities from industrial Michigan to rural California, Curiel portrays the diversity of practices, cultures and observances that make up Muslim America.

Autorentext
Jonathan Curiel is a former staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, whose work has also appeared in the Columbia Journalism Review, Salon.com and the LA Times. He is the author of Al America: Travels through America's Arab and Islamic Roots. Malise Ruthven is one of the world's leading commentators on Islam, about which he has published numerous books. He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.

Inhalt
Foreword by Malise Ruthven vii Preface: Islam's Growing Presence in America xv 1 Slavery and the Struggle to Maintain Belief: American Islam, 16191865 1 2 'White Muslims' Change the Face of a Faith: American Islam, 18901910 13 3 Islam Becomes a Religion of the Nation: American Islam, 19201965 22 4 Islam Establishes an Identity Far Beyond the Mosque: American Islam, 19652010 36 5 The Shock of 9/11: Crisis and Confidence for Muslim-Americans 50 6 The Diversity of American Muslims: A Religious, Ethnic, and Cultural Profile 63 7 Who's Who in Muslim America 82 8 Gender and Religion: How 'Feminist Islam' Has Taken Root and Flourished in America 9 In Politics, Muslim-Americans Progress One Step at a Time 118 10 Conflicts and Co-Existence: The American Dream in the Twenty-First Century 130 Notes 161 Select Bibliography 178 Index 179

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