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Author | : Fuad Shaban |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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This book chronicles the dreams, illusions and aspirations of American missionaries, world travellers and national leaders, from colonial times forward, as they sought to establish "an American Israel" in the Holy Land. In their dispositions the reader can glimpse the battleground for Christian Americans and Middle Eastern Moslems in succeeding centuries. The author brings insights from his own religious roots to complement his grasp of the American phenomena which produced Orientalism. He traces the fundamentalist movements and national philosophies which influenced Americans to view themselves as the "Chosen People" and to extend their missionary resolves to the policy of "Manifest Destiny." Thus the future of American-Arab relations in the Middle East was set upon antithetical paths.
Author | : Denise Spellberg |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2014-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307388395 |
Download Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this original and illuminating book, Denise A. Spellberg reveals a little-known but crucial dimension of the story of American religious freedom—a drama in which Islam played a surprising role. In 1765, eleven years before composing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson bought a Qur’an. This marked only the beginning of his lifelong interest in Islam, and he would go on to acquire numerous books on Middle Eastern languages, history, and travel, taking extensive notes on Islam as it relates to English common law. Jefferson sought to understand Islam notwithstanding his personal disdain for the faith, a sentiment prevalent among his Protestant contemporaries in England and America. But unlike most of them, by 1776 Jefferson could imagine Muslims as future citizens of his new country. Based on groundbreaking research, Spellberg compellingly recounts how a handful of the Founders, Jefferson foremost among them, drew upon Enlightenment ideas about the toleration of Muslims (then deemed the ultimate outsiders in Western society) to fashion out of what had been a purely speculative debate a practical foundation for governance in America. In this way, Muslims, who were not even known to exist in the colonies, became the imaginary outer limit for an unprecedented, uniquely American religious pluralism that would also encompass the actual despised minorities of Jews and Catholics. The rancorous public dispute concerning the inclusion of Muslims, for which principle Jefferson’s political foes would vilify him to the end of his life, thus became decisive in the Founders’ ultimate judgment not to establish a Protestant nation, as they might well have done. As popular suspicions about Islam persist and the numbers of American Muslim citizenry grow into the millions, Spellberg’s revelatory understanding of this radical notion of the Founders is more urgent than ever. Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an is a timely look at the ideals that existed at our country’s creation, and their fundamental implications for our present and future.
Author | : Kambiz GhaneaBassiri |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2010-04-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139788914 |
Download A History of Islam in America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Muslims began arriving in the New World long before the rise of the Atlantic slave trade. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri's fascinating book traces the history of Muslims in the United States and their different waves of immigration and conversion across five centuries, through colonial and antebellum America, through world wars and civil rights struggles, to the contemporary era. The book tells the often deeply moving stories of individual Muslims and their lives as immigrants and citizens within the broad context of the American religious experience, showing how that experience has been integral to the evolution of American Muslim institutions and practices. This is a unique and intelligent portrayal of a diverse religious community and its relationship with America. It will serve as a strong antidote to the current politicized dichotomy between Islam and the West, which has come to dominate the study of Muslims in America and further afield.
Author | : Malini Johar Schueller |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780472087747 |
Download U.S. Orientalisms Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Uncovers the roots of Americans' construction of the "Orient" by examining the work of nineteenth-century authors
Author | : Fawaz A. Gerges |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780521639576 |
Download America and Political Islam Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The origins and implications of American policy on political Islam.
Author | : Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad |
Publisher | : Baylor University Press |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Arab Americans |
ISBN | : 1932792058 |
Download Not Quite American? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this essay Yvonne Haddad explores the history of immigration and integration of Arab Muslims in the United States and their struggle to legitimate their presence in the face of continuing exclusion based on race, nationalist identity, and religion.
Author | : Nadia Marzouki |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2017-04-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0231543921 |
Download Islam Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Islam: An American Religion demonstrates how Islam as formed in the United States has become an American religion in a double sense—first through the strategies of recognition adopted by Muslims and second through the performance of Islam as a faith. Nadia Marzouki investigates how Islam has become so contentious in American politics. Focusing on the period from 2008 to 2013, she revisits the uproar over the construction of mosques, legal disputes around the prohibition of Islamic law, and the overseas promotion of religious freedom. She argues that public controversies over Islam in the United States primarily reflect the American public's profound divisions and ambivalence toward freedom of speech and the legitimacy of liberal secular democracy.
Author | : Timothy Marr |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2006-07-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521852935 |
Download The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An analysis of the historical roots of today's conflicts between the US and the Muslim world.
Author | : Muhammad Fraser-Rahim |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2020-01-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1498590209 |
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America's Other Muslims: Imam W.D. Mohammed, Islamic Reform, and the Making of American Islam explores the oldest and perhaps the most important Muslim community in America, whose story has received little attention in the contemporary context. Muhammad Fraser-Rahim explores American Muslim Revivalist, Imam W.D. Mohammed (1933–2008) and his contribution to the intellectual, spiritual, and philosophical thought of American Muslims as well as the contribution of Islamic thought by indigenous American Muslims. The book details the intersection of the Africana experience and its encounter with race, religion, and Islamic reform. Fraser-Rahim spotlights the emergence of an American school of Islamic thought, which wascreated and established by the son of the former Nation of Islam leader. Imam W.D. Mohammed rejected his father’s teachings and embraced normative Islam on his own terms while balancing classical Islam and his lived experience of Islam in the diaspora. Likewise his interpretations of Islam were not only American – they were also modern and responded to global trends in Islamic thought. His interpretations of Blackness were not only American, but also diasporic and pan-African.
Author | : Mbaye Lo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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