num_pages: 575
description: 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 Muhammad and the sectarians identified with black power, such as the Nation of Islam, Darul Islam, and the Five Percenters.The authors document the challenge and issues which American Muslims face, such as 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 pressures for assimilation.Contents:A minority within a minority : the case of the Shi'a in North America / Abdulaziz Sachedina --The sun of Islam will rise in the west : Minister Farrakhan and the nation of Islam in the latter days / Mattias Gardell --Urban Muslims : the formation of the Dar ul-Islam movement / R.M. Mukhtar Curtis --Tradition and innovation in contemporary American Islamic spirituality : the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship / Gisela Webb --The five percenters : a teenage nation of gods and earths / Yusuf Nuruddin --Muslims in Los Angeles / Ron Kelley --The Muslims of San Diego / M.K. Hermansen --Muslims of Seattle / Miriam Adeney, Kathryn De Master --To "achieve the pleasure of Allah" : immigrant Muslim communities in New York City 1893-1991 / Marc Ferris --Activities of the immigrant Muslim communities in Chicago / Asad Husain, Harold Vogelaar --The Muslims of Indianapolis / Steve A. Johnson --Diversity in Rochester's Islamic community / Tamara Sonn --The Islamic center of New England / Mary Lahaj --Muslims of Montreal / Sheila McDonough --The Shi'a Mosques and their congregations in Dearborn / Linda S. Walbridge --Bektashi Tekke and the Sunni Mosque of Albanian Muslims in America / Frances Trix --Voluntary associations in the old Turkish community of metropolitan Detroit / Barbara Bilge --Elderly Muslim immigrants : needs and challenges / Fariyal Ross-Sheriff --The Yemenis of Delano : a profile of a rural Islamic community / Jonathan Friedlander --Secular immigrants : religiosity and ethnicity among Iranian Muslims in Los Angeles / George Sabagh, Mehdi Bozorgmehr --Masjid ul-Mutkabir : the portrait of an African American Orthodox Muslim community / Christine Kolars --Attitudes of immigrant women and men in the Dearborn area toward women's employment and welfare / Barbara Aswad.
language: English
title: Muslim Communities in North America
titlecomplete: Muslim Communities in North America
ratings_count: 3
publisher: State University of New York Press