Research Catalog

Title

Muslim communities in North America / edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and Jane Idleman Smith.

Publication

Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

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

Description

xxx, 545 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• This book provides the first in-depth look at Muslim life and institutions forming in North America. It considers the range of Islamic life in North America with its different racial-ethnic and cultural identities, customs, and religious orientations. Issues of acculturation, ethnicity, orthodoxy, and the changing roles of women are brought into focus.
• The authors provide insight into the lives of recent immigrants who are asking what is Islamically appropriate in a non-Muslim environment. Contrasts are drawn between Sunni and Shi'i groups, and attention is given to the activities of some Sufi organizations. The growing Islamic community among African-American Muslims is examined, including the followers of Warith Deen Muhammed and the sectarians identified with black power, such as the Nation of Islam, Darul Islam, and the Five Percenters.
• The authors document the challenges and issues that American Muslims face, such as prejudice and racism; pressure from overseas Muslims; dress and education; the influence of Islamic revivalism on the development of the community in this country; and the maintenance of Muslim identity amidst the pressure for assimilation.

Series Statement

SUNY series in Middle Eastern studies

Uniform Title

SUNY series in Middle Eastern studies.

Subject

Islam > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 521-533) and index.

Contents

• Muslim Communities in North America: Introduction -- Ch. 1. A Minority Within a Minority: The Case of the Shi'a in North America / Abdulaziz Sachedina -- Ch. 2. The Sun of Islam Will Rise in the West: Minister Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam in the Latter Days / Mattias Gardell -- Ch. 3. Urban Muslims: The Formation of the Dar ul-Islam Movement / R. M. Mukhtar Curtis -- Ch. 4. Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary American Islamic Spirituality: The Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship / Gisela Webb -- Ch. 5. The Five Percenters: A Teenage Nation of Gods and Earths / Yusuf Nuruddin -- Ch. 6. Muslims in Los Angeles / Ron Kelley -- Ch. 7. The Muslims of San Diego / M. K. Hermansen -- Ch. 8. Muslims of Seattle / Miriam Adeney and Kathryn DeMaster -- Ch. 9. To "Achieve the Pleasure of Allah": Immigrant Muslim Communities in New York City 1893-1991 / Marc Ferris -- Ch. 10. Activities of the Immigrant Muslim Communities in Chicago / Asad Husain and Harold Vogelaar.
• Ch. 11. The Muslims of Indianapolis / Steve A. Johnson -- Ch. 12. Diversity in Rochester's Islamic Community / Tamara Sonn -- Ch. 13. The Islamic Center of New England / Mary Lahaj -- Ch. 14. Muslims of Montreal / Sheila McDonough -- Ch. 15. The Shi'a Mosques and their Congregations in Dearborn / Linda S. Walbridge -- Ch. 16. Bektashi Tekke and the Sunni Mosque of Albanian Muslims in America / Frances Trix -- Ch. 17. Voluntary Associations in the Old Turkish Community of Metropolitan Detroit / Barbara Bilge -- Ch. 18. Elderly Muslim Immigrants: Needs and Challenges / Fariyal Ross-Sheriff -- Ch. 19. The Yemenis of Delano: A Profile of a Rural Islamic Community / Jonathan Friedlander -- Ch. 20. Secular Immigrants: Religiosity and Ethnicity Among Iranian Muslims in Los Angeles / Georges Sabagh and Mehdi Bozorgmehr -- Ch. 21. Masjid ul-Mutkabir: The Portrait of an African American Orthodox Muslim Community / Christine Kolars.
• Ch. 22. Attitudes of Immigrant Women and Men in the Dearborn Area Toward Women's Employment and Welfare / Barbara Aswad.

ISBN

• 0791420191 (alk paper)
• 0791420205 (pbk. : alk paper)

LCCN

93036564

OCLC

• 28963341
• ocm28963341

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries