Muslim Communities in North America

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Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Jane Idleman Smith
State University of New York Press, Aug 4, 1994 - Social Science - 575 pages
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

The Case
3
The Formation of the
51
Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary
75
A Teenage Nation
109
THE MOSAIC OF ISLAMIC
133
The Muslims of San Diego
169
Muslims of Seattle
195
Activities of the Immigrant Muslim
231
Muslims of Montreal
317
The Shia Mosques and their Congregations
337
Bektashi Tekke and the Sunni Mosque
359
Voluntary Associations in the Old Turkish
381
A Profile of
423
Religiosity
445
The Portrait of
475
Attitudes of Immigrant Women and
501

The Muslims of Indianapolis
259
Diversity in Rochesters Islamic Community
279
The Islamic Center of New England
293

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Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad is Professor of Islamic History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Contemporary Islam and the Challenge of History ; co-author with Jane Idleman Smith of Mission to America; and co-author of Women, Religion, and Social Change. Jane Idleman Smith is Academic Dean and Professor of History of Religions at the Iliff School of Theology. She is the author of The Concept of 'Islam' in the History of Qur'anic Studies; co-author with Yvonne Haddad of Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection; and editor of Women in Contemporary Muslim Society.

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