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Record Nr.

UNISA996210401303316

Titolo

The Cambridge companion to American Islam / / edited by Omid Safi, Juliane Hammer [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-42385-6

1-139-02616-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 371 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge companions to religion

Disciplina

297.0973

Soggetti

Islam - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

American Islam, Muslim Americans, and the American experiment / Juliane Hammer and Omid Safi -- The study of American Muslims: a history / Edward E. Curtis IV -- African Muslim slaves and Islam in antebellum America / Richard Brent Turner -- Laying the groundwork for American Muslim histories: 1865-1965 / Sally Howell -- American Muslims in the contemporary world: 1965 to the present / Zain Abdullah -- Converts and conversions / Michael Muhammad Knight -- Demographics, political participation, and representation / Amaney Jamal and Liali Albana -- American Muslims and the media / Nabil Echchaibi -- Muslims in the American legal system / Kathleen M. Moore -- Religious pluralism, secularism, and interfaith / Rosemary R. Hicks -- Organizing communities: institutions, networks, groups / Karen Leonard -- Negotiating boundaries: American sufis / Gisela Webb -- Religious normativity and praxis among American Muslims / Kambiz Ghaneabassiri -- Muslim spaces and mosque architecture / Akel Ismail Kahera -- Islamic education in the United States: debates, practices, and institutions / Zareena Grewal and R. David Coolidge -- Muslim public intellectuals and global muslim thought / Timur Yuskaev -- Cultural and literary production of Muslim America / Sylvia Chan-Malik -- Muslim youth cultures / Su'ad Abdul Khabeer and Maytha Alhassen -- Sexual identity, marriage, and family / Debra Majeed -- Studying American Muslim women: between feminism, activism, and secular society / Juliane Hammer.



Sommario/riassunto

The Cambridge Companion to American Islam offers a scholarly overview of the state of research on American Muslims and American Islam. The book presents the reader with a comprehensive discussion of the debates, challenges and opportunities that American Muslims have faced through centuries of American history. This volume also covers the creative ways in which American Muslims have responded to the myriad serious challenges that they have faced and continue to face in constructing a religious praxis and complex identities that are grounded in both a universal tradition and the particularities of their local contexts. The book introduces the reader to some of the many facets of the lives of American Muslims that can only be understood in their interactions with Islam's entanglement in the American experiment.