The Muslims of America / / edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910971432703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993; Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023
• ISBN: 0-19-774018-9; 1-280-44213-1; 0-19-802317-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 pages)
• Collana: Oxford scholarship online
• 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: Previously issued in print: 1991.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• 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: A collection of essays concerned with the history, organization, challenges, responses and future prospects of Muslim communities in the USA and Canada. Emphasis is placed on the manner in which North American Muslims adopt institutions as they become an indigenous part of their communities.