The Muslims of America / edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad.

Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, 1991.
Descriptionx, 249 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subjects

Other author/creatorHaddad, Yvonne Yazbeck, 1935-
Other author/creatorUniversity of Massachusetts at Amherst. Department of History.
Other author/creatorUniversity of Massachusetts at Amherst. Near East Area Studies Program.
Other author/creatorUniversity of Massachusetts at Amherst. Arabic Club.
SeriesReligion in America series (Oxford University Press)
Religion in America series (Oxford University Press) ^A246220
Contents Introduction : the Muslims of America / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- Muslim organizations in the United States / Gutbi Mahdi Ahmed -- Estimate of Muslims living in America / Carol L. Stone -- Perspectives of the American churches on Islam and the Muslim community in North America / Byron L. Haines -- The Muslim as the "other" : representation and self-image of the Muslims in America / Abubaker al-Shingiety -- Ismail R. al-Faruqi : Muslim scholar-activist / John L. Esposito -- Seyyed Hossein Nasr : defender of the sacred and Islamic traditionalism / Jane I. Smith -- The legacy of Fazlur Rahman / Frederick M. Denny -- Political activity of Muslims in America / Steven A. Johnson -- Daẁah in the West / Larry A. Poston.
Contents Muslims in prison : claims to constitutional protection of religious liberty / Kathleen Moore -- Islamic education in the United States and Canada : conception and practice of the Islamic belief system / Nimat Hafez Barazangi -- African-American Muslim women / Beverly Thomas McCloud -- Two-way acculturation : Muslim women in America between individual choice (liminality) and community affiliation (communitas) / Marcia K. Hermansen -- Islamic issues for Muslims in the United States / John O. Voll -- American foreign policy in the Middle East and its impact on the identity of Arab Muslims in the United States / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- Convergence and divergence in an emergent community : a study of challenges facing U.S. Muslims / Sulayman S. Nyang.
General notePapers presented at a conference held on the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts, April 1989 and sponsored by the Dept. of History, the Near East Area Studies Program, and the Arabic Club of the university.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 90044510
ISBN0195067282 (alk. paper)

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