Research Catalog

Title

The Oxford handbook of American Islam / edited by Yvonne Y. Haddad and Jane I. Smith.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck, 1935-
• Smith, Jane I.

Description

xii, 560 pages; 26 cm

Summary

Islam has been part of the increasingly complex American religious scene for well over a century, and was brought into more dramatic focus by the attacks of September 11, 2001. American Islam is practiced by a unique blend of immigrants and American-born Muslims. The immigrants have come from all corners of the world; they include rich and poor, well-educated and illiterate, those from upper and lower classes as well as economic and political refugees. The community's diversity has been enhanced by the conversion of African Americans, Latina/os, and others, making it the most heterogeneous Muslim community in the world. With an up-to-the-minute analysis by thirty of the top scholars in the field, this handbook covers the growth of Islam in America from the earliest Muslims to set foot on American soil to the current wave of Islamophobia. Topics covered include the development of African American Islam; pre- and post-WWII immigrants; Sunni, Shìite, sectarian and Sufi movements in America; the role and status of women, marriage, and family; and the Americanization of Islamic culture. Throughout these chapters the contributors explore the meaning of religious identity in the context of race, ethnicity, gender, and politics, both within the American Islamic community and in relation to international Islam.

Series Statement

Oxford handbooks

Uniform Title

Oxford handbooks.

Alternative Title

American Islam

Subjects

• Islam > United States
• Muslims > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The first stirrings of Islam in America / Sylviane A. Diouf -- Muslim immigration to America / Randa B. Serhan -- Imams and chaplains as American religious professionals / Timur R. Yuskaev and Harvey Stark -- Islamic organizations in the United States / Jocelyne Cesari -- African American Muslims / Caroline Moxley Rouse -- The twelver Shiʻis in America / Liyakat Takim -- Sufi movements in America / Marcia Hermansen -- Muslim minority groups in American Islam / Yvonne Y. Haddad and Jane I. Smith -- Practicing Islam in the United States / Muzammil H. Siddiqi -- Shariʻa and fiqh in the United States / Asma Afsaruddin -- Muslim women in the United States / Kathleen M. Moore -- Marriage in American Muslim communities / Juliane Hammer -- Mosques in the United States / Ihsan Bagby -- Developments in Islamic education in the United States / Susan L. Douglass -- American Muslim youth movements / Rabia Kamal -- Daʻwa in the United States / Kathleen M. Moore -- Islam in American prisons / Susan Van Baalen -- Volunteerism among American immigrant Muslims / Altaf Husain -- Muslim Americans and the political system / Abdulkader H. Sinno -- The intellectual contributions of American Muslim scholars / Sara J. Chehab and Marvin R. Whitaker, Jr -- Muslim-Christian relations in the United States / Peter Makari -- American Muslims in the age of new media / Nadia Khan -- Muslim artists in America / Munir Jiwa -- American mosque architecture / Akel Ismail Kahera -- Islamic dress and fashion in the United States / Rabia Kamal -- Health and medicine among American Muslims / Lance D. Laird -- Muslims in film and Muslim filmmaking in the United States / Hussein Rashid -- American Muslims and global Islam / Peter Mandaville -- The War on Terror and its effects on American Muslims / Charles Kimball -- Islamophobia and anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States / Peter Gottschalk.

Call Number

JFF 16-799

ISBN

• 9780199862634
• 019986263X

LCCN

2014007963

OCLC

872139298

Title

The Oxford handbook of American Islam / edited by Yvonne Y. Haddad and Jane I. Smith.

Publisher

New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oxford handbooks

Oxford handbooks.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck, 1935-

Smith, Jane I.

Research Call Number

JFF 16-799