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This presentation looks at the history of Muslims’ presence in America and their various contributions. We often speak of “Islam and the West” but we should also speak of “Islam in the West” since Muslims are, and have been, part of America since the beginning.
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 This volume reveals how the National Origins Act of 1924 and the 1965 law that repealed it changed Muslim American life.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 First American Muslims. 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.
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.
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.
The history of Muslims in America dates back to the transatlantic mercantile interactions between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Upon its arrival, Islam became entrenched in American discourses on race and civilization because literate and noble African Muslims, brought to America as slaves, had problematized popular stereotypes of Muslims ...
