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how Muslims have participated in American history by narrating the ways in which they have defined themselves and their religion in relation to changing conceptions of race, religious pluralism, and national iden-
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 This volume reveals how the National Origins Act of 1924 and the 1965 law that repealed it changed Muslim American life.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.
8 Μαρ 2021 · This text 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.
Addressing the condition of Islam in America in the 1960s–1980s, the author, in Chapter 7, argues that during this period, more Muslim immigrants from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East came to America, a land that valued liberty and cultural differences.
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.
This course explores the history of Muslims in the United States—and American discourses about Islam—from colonial times to the present. As a broadly conceived transregional history, the seminar begins just before 1492 and follows five principal historical contexts and processes linking diverse geographic regions of the world.
