Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9781139776035
1139776037
1139782061
9781139782067
9780511780493
0511780494
9780521849647
0521849640
0521614872
9780521614870
1316088006
9781316088005
1139793454
9781139793452
1107253802
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9781139779074
1139777556
9781139777551
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-425) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | This text 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. It tells the stories of individual Muslims, and their lives as immigrants and citizens within the broad context of the American religious experience 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. The first arrivals date to the turn of the sixteenth century when European explorers and colonists crossed the Atlantic in search of new horizons and trading routes. This work is a portrayal of a diverse religious community and its relationship with America. It serves 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.
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| Other form: | Print version: GhaneaBassiri, Kambiz. History of Islam in America. New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2010 9780521849647
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| Standard no.: | 40017877798
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