The Muslims of America / / editor, Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782895503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1994
• ISBN: 0-19-774018-9; 1-280-44213-1; 0-19-802317-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 pages)
• Collana: Religion in America series The Muslims of America
• Disciplina: 297.0973; 297/.0973
• Soggetti: Islam - United States; Muslims - United States
• 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 Rahman IV. 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 States 15 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.