Muslims in America

Muslims in America: A Short History is an accessible, succinct, and informative historical survey of Muslim American communities. This popular book has two key objectives: to increase non-Muslim Americans’ understanding of Muslims in the United States and to foreground to Muslim Americans themselve...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:52e35c548e8f4713a9a1f404e975bfc22021-12-02T19:23:14ZMuslims in America10.35632/ajis.v27i3.13102690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/52e35c548e8f4713a9a1f404e975bfc22010-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/1310https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 Muslims in America: A Short History is an accessible, succinct, and informative historical survey of Muslim American communities. This popular book has two key objectives: to increase non-Muslim Americans’ understanding of Muslims in the United States and to foreground to Muslim Americans themselves their own religious, ethnic, and cultural diversity (p. xi). The story of Muslim America begins in the eighteenth century. Chapter 1, “Across the Black Atlantic: The First Muslims in North America,” sketches the lives of several West African Muslims, many of them highly literate and schooled in the Islamic sciences, who were enslaved and shipped to the United States, such as Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (Job Ben Solomon), Abd al-Rahman Ibrahima, and Omar ibn Sayyid. The second chapter, “The First American Converts to Islam,” moves into the late-nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries. Here Curtis provides an array of highly diverse Muslim missionary activities, from the rather unsuccessful proselytization work of White American convert Alexander Russell Webb, to the steady spread of mystical Islamic teachings spearheaded by such preachers as Indian Sufi master Inayat Khan, to the Nation of Islam’s ascendance as a mass-based Black liberation movement ... Shadaab RahemtullaInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 27, Iss 3 (2010)
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Muslims in America
description Muslims in America: A Short History is an accessible, succinct, and informative historical survey of Muslim American communities. This popular book has two key objectives: to increase non-Muslim Americans’ understanding of Muslims in the United States and to foreground to Muslim Americans themselves their own religious, ethnic, and cultural diversity (p. xi). The story of Muslim America begins in the eighteenth century. Chapter 1, “Across the Black Atlantic: The First Muslims in North America,” sketches the lives of several West African Muslims, many of them highly literate and schooled in the Islamic sciences, who were enslaved and shipped to the United States, such as Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (Job Ben Solomon), Abd al-Rahman Ibrahima, and Omar ibn Sayyid. The second chapter, “The First American Converts to Islam,” moves into the late-nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries. Here Curtis provides an array of highly diverse Muslim missionary activities, from the rather unsuccessful proselytization work of White American convert Alexander Russell Webb, to the steady spread of mystical Islamic teachings spearheaded by such preachers as Indian Sufi master Inayat Khan, to the Nation of Islam’s ascendance as a mass-based Black liberation movement ...
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