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Summary: The first significant waves of immigration of Muslims to North America came through three centuries of the slave trade. In the midst of brutal treatment and forced conversion to Christianity, many African Muslims preserved their religious identities.
North set the stage for African American conversion to Islam. This volume reveals how the National Origins Act of 1924 and the 1965 law that repealed it changed Muslim American life.
The history of Islam in America begins in the context of rivalries and encounters of the Atlantic world that shaped the American republic. The presence of Muslims in the territories that eventually formed the United States of America dates back to the earliest arrivals of Europeans
Islam is the third-largest religion in the U.S. after Christianity and Judaism. The U.S. Census does not include questions about religion, so estimates of the American Muslim population vary. A 2017 study by the Pew Foundation places the numbers of Muslims in the U.S. at 3.45 million and growing.
This chapter looks at the history of Islam in America. The history of the Muslim faith in America exemplifies many of the principles associated with immigration, the globalization of American religious communities, and ethnic insularity and self-definitions.
5 Δεκ 2014 · It covers the initial growth of Islam in the US from the earliest arrivals through the beginnings of African American Islam, as well as the waves of pre- and post-WWII immigrants when Muslims had little sense of religious identity in relation to their American compatriots.
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.
