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Muslims in America : a short history / Edward E. Curtis IV.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion in American lifePublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 144 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780199710140
  • 0199710147
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Muslims in America.DDC classification:
  • 305.6/970973 22
LOC classification:
  • E184.M88 C877 2009eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Across the black Atlantic : the first Muslims in North America -- The first American converts to Islam -- Twentieth-century Muslim immigrants : from the melting pot to the Cold War -- Religious awakenings of the late twentieth century -- Muslim Americans after 9/11.
Summary: Muslims are neither new nor foreign to the United States. They have been a vital presence in North America since the 16th century. Muslims in America unearths their history, documenting the lives of African, Middle Eastern, South Asian, European, black, white, Hispanic and other Americans who have been followers of Islam. The book begins with the tale of Job Ben Solomon, a 18th century African American Muslim slave, and goes on to chart the stories of sodbusters in North Dakota, African American converts to Islam in the 1920s, Muslim barkeepers in Toledo, the post-1965 wave of professional immigrants from Asia and Africa, and Muslim Americans after 9/11.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)299039

Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-127) and index.

Across the black Atlantic : the first Muslims in North America -- The first American converts to Islam -- Twentieth-century Muslim immigrants : from the melting pot to the Cold War -- Religious awakenings of the late twentieth century -- Muslim Americans after 9/11.

Muslims are neither new nor foreign to the United States. They have been a vital presence in North America since the 16th century. Muslims in America unearths their history, documenting the lives of African, Middle Eastern, South Asian, European, black, white, Hispanic and other Americans who have been followers of Islam. The book begins with the tale of Job Ben Solomon, a 18th century African American Muslim slave, and goes on to chart the stories of sodbusters in North Dakota, African American converts to Islam in the 1920s, Muslim barkeepers in Toledo, the post-1965 wave of professional immigrants from Asia and Africa, and Muslim Americans after 9/11.

Print version record.