By Yvonne Y. Haddad,Jane I. Smith
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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