A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order
"GhaneaBassiri's extraordinary collection and redaction of materials, combined with his historiographical and methodological insights, constitute a major intervention into several oft-segregated fields." -Journal of the American Academy of Religion"This  book offers a much needed and richly detailed overview of the story of  Islam and Muslims on this continent from earliest times to the present.  An invaluable work." -Leila Ahmed, Harvard Divinity School"This  remarkable book draws on a broad range of primary and secondary sources  to develop a new synthesis. It deepens our appreciation of Islam's  internal diversity, reveals some of the different ways that Muslim  identity has been improvised in inter-religious exchanges in America,  and debunks stereotypes about what it means to be Muslim and American.  This is a careful work of scholarship and a fascinating narrative  history." -- Christopher G. White, Assistant Professor of Religion in  America, Vassar College"A History of Islam in America is a major  step forward in understanding the encounters and exchanges between  Muslims and non-Muslims in the US. This richly documented and  fascinating analysis provides a powerful challenge to stereotypes that  exclude Islam from the orbit of 'the West.' -- Carl W. Ernst, William R.  Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, University of  North Carolina at Chapel Hill"This book is the most comprehensive  historical monograph yet written about Islam in the United States."  -Edward E. Curtis, Journal of American History"...this  scholarly book is a valuable and welcome contribution to the historical  study of Islam in the West in general, and the United States in  particular. The book's core thesis is the complexity and diversity of  American Muslims' experience in the new world.The book is highly  recommended,for it serves specialists and non-specialists alike."  -Digest of Middle East Studies"Professor GhaneaBassiri does an excellent job, and his encyclopedic, erudite, and objective study deserves to be read widely, and its arguments deserve to be taken seriously by others in the field." -Journal of Church and State"GhaneaBassiri modestly pens not The History of Islam in America, but A History of Islam in America splendidly." -Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion"Of all the books under review, GhaneaBassiri's is the  most self-conscious and rigorous in its methodology." -Middle East  Journal"GhaneaBassiri provides a timely, informative, scholarly, and well-documented book that sheds new light on the history and experience of Muslims in the United States, refuting the naive notion of a clash of civilizations." -El-Sayed El-Aswad, Digest of Middle East Studies"GhaneaBassiri...addresses the production of knowledge about both Muslims and the United States that allows for...dichotomizing logic. In doing so, he disproves suppositions that Muslims' lives are intrinsically or historically distinct from "America" while demonstrating that a scholar of Islamic traditions can also be a thorough and theoretically sophisticated Americanist, and vice versa. GhaneaBassiri's extraordinary collection and redaction of materials, combined with his historiographical and methodological insights, constitute a major intervention into several oft-segregated fields." -Rosemary R. Hicks, Journal of the American Academy of Religion; Tufts University"When we come to GhaneaBassiri's volume, I believe that we have one of the best books available today describing how Muslims from the earliest days of their presence in America to the very contemporary period have both participated in and have been molded by the flow of American history." -Jane I. Smith, The Journal of Religion