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001 2010006223
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008 100212s2010 nyuao b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2010006223
020 $a9780521849647 (hardback)
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050 00 $aBP67.U6$bG43 2010
082 00 $a297.0973$222
100 1 $aGhaneaBassiri, Kambiz.
245 12 $aA history of Islam in America :$bfrom the new world to the new world order /$cKambiz GhaneaBassiri.
260 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$cc2010.
300 $ax, 446 p.$bill., photographs ;$c24 cm.
520 $aMuslims began arriving in the New World long before the rise of the Atlantic slave trade. The first recorded arrival was in the late fifteenth century when Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic in search of new horizons and trading routes. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri's fascinating book traces the history of Muslims in the United States and their different waves of immigration and conversion across five centuries, through colonial and antebellum America, through world wars and civil rights struggles, to the contemporary era. The book tells the often deeply moving stories of individual Muslims and their lives as immigrants and citizens within the broad context of the American religious experience, showing how that experience has been integral to the evolution of American Muslim institutions and practices. This is a unique and intelligent portrayal of a diverse religious community and its relationship with America. It will serve as a strong antidote to the current politicized dichotomy between Islam and the West, which has come to dominate the study of Muslims in America and further afield --$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 383-424) and index.
650 0 $aIslam$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aMuslims$zUnited States.