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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454660103321

Autore

Haddad Yvonne Yazbeck <1935->

Titolo

The Muslims of America [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1994

ISBN

1-280-44213-1

0-19-802317-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Collana

Religion in America series The Muslims of America

Disciplina

297.0973

297/.0973

Soggetti

Islam

Muslims

Islam - United States

Muslims - United States

Religion

Philosophy & Religion

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Introduction: The Muslims of America; I. The Muslims of the United States; 1 Muslim Organizations in the United States; 2 Estimate of Muslims Living in America; II. Perceptions of Muslims in the United States; 3 Perspectives of the American Churches on Islam and the Muslim Community in North America; 4 The Muslim as the ""Other"": Representation and Self-image of the Muslims in America; III. Islamic Thought in the United States; 5 Ismail R. Al-Faruqi: Muslim Scholar-Activist; 6 Seyyed Hossein Nasr: Defender of the Sacred and Islamic Traditionalism

7 The Legacy of Fazlur RahmanIV. Islamic Activity in the United States; 8 Political Activity of Muslims in America; 9 Da'wa in the West; 10 Muslims in Prison: Claims to Constitutional Protection of Religious Liberty; 11 Islamic Education in the United States and Canada: Conception and Practice of the Islamic Belief System; V. Muslim Women in Intercultural Perspective; 12 African-American Muslim Women; 13



Two-Way Acculturation: Muslim Women in America Between Individual Choice (Liminality) and Community Affiliation (Communitas); VI. American Muslims and the Question of Identity

14 Islamic Issues for Muslims in the United States15 American Foreign Policy in the Middle East and Its Impact on the Identity of Arab Muslims in the United States; 16 Convergence and Divergence in an Emergent Community: A Study of Challenges Facing U.S. Muslims

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays discusses the history, organization, challenges, responses, outstanding thinkers and future prospects of the Muslim community in the USA and Canada.