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A History of Islam in America

From the New World to the New World Order

Kambiz GhaneaBassiri author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:19th Apr '10

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Traces the history of Muslims in the US and their waves of immigration and conversion across five centuries.

This fascinating book traces the history of Muslims in the United States and their different waves of immigration and conversion across five centuries. It tells the often deeply moving stories of individual Muslims, showing how their experiences have been integral to the evolution of American Muslim institutions and practices.Muslims began arriving in the New World long before the rise of the Atlantic slave trade. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri's fascinating book traces the history of Muslims in the United States and their different waves of immigration and conversion across five centuries, through colonial and antebellum America, through world wars and civil rights struggles, to the contemporary era. The book tells the often deeply moving stories of individual Muslims and their lives as immigrants and citizens within the broad context of the American religious experience, showing how that experience has been integral to the evolution of American Muslim institutions and practices. This is a unique and intelligent portrayal of a diverse religious community and its relationship with America. It will serve as a strong antidote to the current politicized dichotomy between Islam and the West, which has come to dominate the study of Muslims in America and further afield.

'This publication is so well researched and documented that it reads like a textbook of legal history.' The Muslim World Book Review

ISBN: 9780521614870

Dimensions: 230mm x 153mm x 20mm

Weight: 620g

458 pages