Shabana Mir, Muslim American women on campus: undergraduate social life and identity It illuminates the dynamics of the Pakistani Muslim community in Houston, a city with one of the largest Muslim populations in the south and southwestern United States. Keywords: South Asians. It documents the culture wars and doctrinal debates that ensued as these populations confronted Muslim newcomers who did not understand their manner of worship or the American identities they had created.
Looking closely at this historical encounter, Old Islam in Detroit provides a new interpretation of the possibilities and limits of Muslim incorporation in American life. Keywords: Arabs; Michigan. Bayyinah S. Jeffries, A nation can rise no higher than its women: African American Muslim women in the movement for black self determination, Keywords: African-Americans; Nation of Islam.
Anne Rypstat Richards, Muslims and American popular culture The first volume tackles the entertainment industry, addressing comedy and theater, television, film, popular fiction and poetry, music, and digital culture. The second volume deals with print material and identity in Islam, covering black Muslims, journalism and digital media, societal trends and issues, Islamic-influenced architecture, and memoirs. Keywords: Media. Dealing with this dual identity, Abdullah discovers, is extraordinarily complex. Keywords: Africans; New Immigrants.
Nahla al Huraibi, Islam, gender and migrant integration: the case of Somali immigrant families Keywords: Gender; Somalia. Zareena Grewal, Islam is a foreign country: American Muslims and the global crisis of authority Probing the competing obligations of American Muslims to the nation and to the umma the global community of Muslim believers , Islam is a Foreign Country investigates the meaning of American citizenship and the place of Islam in a global age.
Keywords: Transnational; Youth. Each person portrayed in this ethnography is a complex individual, whose hierarchy of identities is shaped by particular events and the larger social environment. Keywords: Civil Rights; Intersectionality. Keywords: Civil Rights; Media.
Anan Ameri, Daily life of Arab Americans in the 21st century Keywords: Arab Americans. Maleeha Aslam, Gender-based explosions: the nexus between Muslim masculinities, jihadist Islamism and terrorism Issues of regressive radicalism, literalism, militancy, and terrorism can only be solved through people-centered interventions. Therefore, governments and civil society should promote an alternative culture of growth, self-expression, and actualization for Muslim men.
Keywords: Gender; Terrorism. Hilal Elver, The headscarf controversy: secularism and freedom of religion Keywords: Gender; Hijab. As they explore the complex demands of life in the Terror Decade, the contributors to this volume create vivid portraits of a community that has fought back successfully against attempts to deny its national identity and diminish its civil rights. Keywords: Arabs; Civil Rights; Michigan. Karin Van Nieuwkerk, Muslim rap, halal soaps, and revolutionary theater They discuss the development of religious sensibilities among audiences, which increasingly include the well-to-do and the educated young, as well as the emergence of a local and global religious market.
At the heart of these essays is an examination of the intersection between cultural politics, performing art, and religion, addressing such questions as where, how, and why pop culture and performing arts have been turned into a religious mission, and whether it is possible to develop a new Islamic aesthetic that is balanced with religious sensibilities.
What she discovered, however, in the stories of British colonial officials, young Muslim feminists, Arab nationalists, pious Islamic daughters, American Muslim immigrants, violent jihadists, and peaceful Islamic activists, confounded her expectations. Reza Aslan, Muslims and Jews in America: commonalities, contentions, and complexities Each essay discusses a different episode from the recent twentieth and current twenty-first century American milieu that links these two groups together.
Keywords: Interfaith Relations. Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Becoming American? Urging America to reconsider its tenets of religious pluralism, Haddad reveals that the public square has more than enough room to accommodate those values and ideals inherent in the moderate Islam flourishing throughout the country.
Keywords: Arab Americans; Identity. Such specific issues as dress, marriage, childrearing, conversion, and workplace discrimination are addressed. The authors also look at the ways in which American Muslim women have tried to create new paradigms of Islamic womanhood and are reinterpreting the traditions apart from the males who control the mosque institutions.
Keywords: Civil Rights; Gender. Keywords: Terrorism. Sherman A. Jackson, Islam and the Blackamerican: looking toward the third resurrection Jackson notes that no one has offered a convincing explanation of why Islam spread among Blackamericans a coinage he explains and defends but not among white Americans or Hispanics. The assumption has been that there is an African connection. In fact, Jackson shows, none of the distinctive features of African Islam appear in the proto-Islamic, black nationalist movements of the early 20th century.
Keywords: African-Americans. Keywords: South Asians; Terrorism. Keywords: Immigration. Keywords: Arabs; History. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Homegrown terrorists in the U. This timely volume is the first dedicated entirely to the neglected topic of Islamic education in this country. Keywords: Education; Youth. Jennifer Leila Holsinger, Residential patterns of Arab Americans: race, ethnicity and spatial assimilation Hasan Kaplan, Psychology of new Muslim identity in America This study will give you a glimps from the struggle that these young people experience between two conflicting worldviews in order to find their own niche in life.
Keywords: Identity.
Amaney A. Keywords: Arab Americans; Civil Rights. Akel Ismail Kahera, Deconstructing the American mosque: space, gender and aesthetics Keywords: Mosques. Jamillah Karim, American Muslim women: negotiating race, class, and gender within the ummah The volume focuses on women who, due to gender inequalities, are sometimes more likely to move outside of their ethnic Muslim spaces and interact with other Muslim ethnic groups in search of gender justice. Keywords: Arabs. It is an historical account of the efforts of a diverse community that over several decades grappled with the challenge of establishing a respected place for their Islamic lifestyle within the United States of America.
Keywords: African-Americans; New Jersey. Selcuk R. Sirin, Muslim American youth: understanding hyphenated identities through multiple methods Keywords: Identity; Youth. This work examines such subjects as modes of interpretation of Islamic knowledge, attitudes toward religious education for children, marriage within and between ethnic groups, attitudes toward sex and gender, the use of the hijab, and race and ethnic relations, both within and outside the mosque itself.
Keywords: Boston; Identity. She reveals a community tired of being judged by American perceptions of Muslims overseas and eager to tell their own stories.
Keywords: Civil Rights. The volume chronicles the founding of the Arab American National Museum from several viewpoints, and offers a detailed tour through its major exhibits. Keywords: Civil Rights; Gender; Hijab. Edward E. Curtis, Black Muslim religion in the Nation of Islam, Jerald F. Dirks, Muslims in American history: a forgotten legacy In reality, there is a centuries long history of the Muslim presence in America, which is all too often overlooked or misidentified. Offering a topical discussion of Islamic issues, the author argues that there is no one immigrant Islam community but a multifaceted and multi-cultural Islamic world.
Keywords: Africans; South Asians; Transnational. Rosina J. Hassoun, Arab Americans in Michigan Keywords: Arab-Americans; Michigan. These techniques, she argues, are in service to the greater goal of Five Percenter rappers, who see themselves primarily as teachers. Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Not quite American? Keywords: Arabs; Identity. Bruce B. Lawrence, New faiths, old fears: Muslims and other Asian immigrants in American religious life In this remarkable book, a leading scholar of religion asks how these new faiths have changed or have been changed by the pluralist face of American civil society.
How have these new religious minorities been affected by the deep-rooted American ambivalence toward foreign traditions? Bruce Lawrence casts a comparativist eye on the American religious scene and explores the ways in which various groups of Asian immigrants have, and sometimes have not, been integrated into the American polity. Keywords: Civil Rights; South Asians. Iftikhar H. Keywords: Terrorism; Transnational. Arab cultural values play an important role in determining the position of women of Arab descent in American society. Keywords: Gender; Intersectionality.
Keywords: Chicago; New Immigrants. The first five chapters summarize geographical, sociological, and historical facts about the Arab world—providing an understanding about why and when immigration occurred. Keywords: Arab Americans; California. Curtis, Islam in black America Curtis notes that intellectual tensions in African-American Islam parallel those of Islam throughout its history—most notably, whether Islam is a religion for a particular group of people or whether it is a religion for all people….
Ultimately, Curtis argues, the interplay of particular and universal interpretations of the faith can allow African-American Islam a vision that embraces both a specific group of people and all people. Robert Dannin, Black pilgrimage to Islam He discovers that the well-known and cult-like Nation of Islam represents only a small part of the picture.
By transplanting many of their institutions to the US particularly in New York , Muslim immigrants succeeded in establishing their presence in the American landscape without arousing significant concern in the host community. Keywords: New York; South Asians. Keywords: Arab Americans; New York. A historical overview of Islam, an interpretation of the basic tenets of the Quran, and a close look at the growth of Islam in African-American communities rounds out the first-person accounts of daily life.