By Yvonne Y. Haddad,Jane I. Smith

Islam has been a part of the more and more advanced American spiritual scene for good over a century, and used to be introduced into extra dramatic concentration by means of the assaults of September eleven, 2001. American Islam is practiced by means of a distinct combination of immigrants and American-born Muslims. The immigrants have come from all corners of the area; they comprise wealthy and negative, well-educated and illiterate, these from top and decrease sessions in addition to fiscal and political refugees. The community's variety has been more advantageous through the conversion of African americans, Latina/os, and others, making it the main heterogeneous Muslim group within the world.

With an up to date research through thirty of the head students within the box, this instruction manual covers the expansion of Islam in the United States from the earliest Muslims to set foot on American soil to the present wave of Islamophobia. themes coated contain the improvement of African American Islam; pre- and post-WWII immigrants; Sunni, Shi`ite, sectarian and Sufi pursuits in the US; the function and standing of girls, marriage, and kinfolk; and the Americanization of Islamic culture.

Throughout those chapters the members discover the that means of spiritual identification within the context of race, ethnicity, gender, and politics, either in the American Islamic group and with regards to overseas Islam.

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