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A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order
Kambiz Ghaneabassiri
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Description for A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order
Hardback. Traces the history of Muslims in the US and their waves of immigration and conversion across five centuries. Num Pages: 458 pages, 19 b/w illus. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 160 x 36. Weight in Grams: 860.
Muslims began arriving in the New World long before the rise of the Atlantic slave trade. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri's fascinating book 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. 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. This ... Read more
Muslims began arriving in the New World long before the rise of the Atlantic slave trade. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri's fascinating book 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. 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. This ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
458
Condition
New
Number of Pages
458
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521849647
SKU
V9780521849647
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About Kambiz Ghaneabassiri
Kambiz GhaneaBassiri is Associate Professor of Religion and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Competing Visions of Islam in the United States: A Study of Los Angeles and has served on the editorial board of The Encyclopedia of Islam in the United States and the Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History.
Reviews for A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order
'This publication is so well researched and documented that it reads like a textbook of legal history.' The Muslim World Book Review