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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.
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 This volume reveals how the National Origins Act of 1924 and the 1965 law that repealed it changed Muslim American life.
fact: Islam and Muslims have been an integral part of the American social fabric from the very beginnings of the nation. 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
5 Δεκ 2014 · This Handbook offers an up-to-the-minute analysis of Islam in America by 30 of the best scholars in the field. 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 ...
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.
1 Μαρ 2011 · when Islam was increasingly being associated with terrorism, American Muslims were becoming more politically active in the United States outside of Arab American organizations.
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.
