The Muslims of America
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The Muslims of America
（Religion in America series）
Oxford University Press, 1991
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Papers presented at a conference held on the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts, April 1989 and sponsored by the Dept. of History, the Near East Area Studies Program, and the Arabic Club of the university
Includes bibliographical references
First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1993
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ISBN 9780195067286
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This collection, which grew out of a conference held at the University of Massachusetts in 1988, brings together 16 essays about the history, organization, challenges, responses, outstanding thinkers and future prospects of Muslim communities in the USA and Canada. Both Muslims and non-Muslims are represented among the contributors. The essays focus on the manner in which North American Muslims adapt their institutions as they become increasingly an indigenous part of America. Topics covered include Muslim self-images, perceptions of Muslims by non-Muslim Americans, leading Muslim intellectuals, political activity of Muslims in America, Muslims in prisons, Islamic education, the status of Muslim women in North America, and the impact of American foreign policy on Muslims in the USA.
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This collection brings together sixteen previously unpublished essays about the history, organization, challenges, responses, outstanding thinkers, and future prospects of the Muslim community in the United States and Canada. Both Muslims and non-Muslims are represented among the contributors, who include such leading Islamic scholars as John Esposito, Frederick Denny, Jane Smith, and John Voll. Focusing on the manner in which American Muslims adapt their
institutions as they become increasingly an indigenous part of America, the essays discuss American Muslim self-images, perceptions of Muslims by non-Muslim Americans, leading American Muslim intellectuals, political activity of Muslims in America, Muslims in American prisons, Islamic education, the status of
Muslim women in America, and the impact of American foreign policy on Muslims in the United States.
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