Muslims in America
Subtitle: a short history
By: Edward E. Curtis IV.
Series: Religion in American life; Religion in American life
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780195367560
Subjects: Muslims -- United States -- History; Muslims -- United States -- Social conditions; Islam -- United States -- History; United States -- Ethnic relations; United States -- Religious life and customs
Description: Muslims are neither new nor foreign to the United States. They have been a vital presence in North America since the 16th century. Muslims in America unearths their history, documenting the lives of African, Middle Eastern, South Asian, European, black, white, Hispanic and other Americans who have been followers of Islam. The book begins with the tale of Job Ben Solomon, a 18th century African American Muslim slave, and goes on to chart the stories of sodbusters in North Dakota, African American converts to Islam in the 1920s, Muslim barkeepers in Toledo, the post-1965 wave of professional imm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Across the black Atlantic : the first Muslims in North America; title: The first American converts to Islam; title: Twentieth-century Muslim immigrants : from the melting pot to the Cold War; title: Religious awakenings of the late twentieth century; title: Muslim Americans after 9/11.