A history of Islam in America : from the new world to the new world order /
Muslims began arriving in the New World long before the rise of the Atlantic slave trade. The first arrivals date to the turn of the sixteenth century when European explorers and colonists crossed the Atlantic in search of new horizons and trading routes. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri's fascinating book...
| Основен автор: | GhaneaBassiri, Kambiz. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
c2010.
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Съдържание:
- 1. Islam in the 'New World': the historical setting
- 2. Islamic beliefs and practice in colonial and antebellum America
- 3. Conflating race, religion and progress: social change, national identity, and Islam in the post-Civil War era
- 4. Race, ethnicity, religion and citizenship: Muslim immigration at the turn of the twentieth century
- 5. Rooting Islam in America: community and institution building in the interwar period
- 6. Islam and American civil religion in the aftermath of World War II
- 7. A new religious America and post-colonial Muslim world: American Muslim institution building and activism, 1960s-1980s
- 8. Between experience and politics: American Muslims and the 'new world order', 1989-2008
- Epilogue.