Muslims began arriving in the New World long before the rise of the Atlantic slave trade. The first arrivals date to the turn of the sixteenth century when European explorers and colonists crossed the Atlantic in search of new horizons and trading routes. 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 is a unique and intelligent portrayal of a diverse religious community and its relationship with America. It will serve as a strong antidote to the current politicized dichotomy between Islam and the West, which has come to dominate the study of Muslims in America and further afield.
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"Professor GhaneaBassiri does an excellent job, and his encyclopedic, erudite, and objective study deserves to be read widely, and its arguments deserve to be taken seriously by others in the field." --Journal of Church and State
"...this scholarly book is a valuable and welcome contribution to the historical study of Islam in the West in general, and the United States in particular....The book is highly recommended, for it serves specialists and non-specialists alike." --Digest of Middle East Studies
"Of all the books under review, GhaneaBassiri's is the most self-conscious and rigorous in its methodology." -Bruce Lawrence, Middle East Journal
"GhaneaBassiri modestly pens not The History of Islam in America, but A History of Islam in America splendidly." --Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
"This book offers a much needed and richly detailed overview of the story of Islam and Muslims on this continent from earliest times to the present. An invaluable work." -Leila Ahmed, Harvard Divinity School
"This remarkable book draws on a broad range of primary and secondary sources to develop a new synthesis. It deepens our appreciation of Islam's internal diversity, reveals some of the different ways that Muslim identity has been improvised in inter-religious exchanges in America, and debunks stereotypes about what it means to be Muslim and American. This is a careful work of scholarship and a fascinating narrative history." -- Christopher G. White, Assistant Professor of Religion in America, Vassar College
"A History of Islam in America is a major step forward in understanding the encounters and exchanges between Muslims and non-Muslims in the US. This richly documented and fascinating analysis provides a powerful challenge to stereotypes that exclude Islam from the orbit of 'the West.' -- Carl W. Ernst, William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"This book is the most comprehensive historical monograph yet written about Islam in the United States." -Edward E. Curtis, Journal of American History
"...this scholarly book is a valuable and welcome contribution to the historical study of Islam in the West in general, and the United States in particular. The book's core thesis is the complexity and diversity of American Muslims' experience in the new world.The book is highly recommended,for it serves specialists and non-specialists alike." -Digest of Middle East Studies
"Professor GhaneaBassiri does an excellent job, and his encyclopedic, erudite, and objective study deserves to be read widely, and its arguments deserve to be taken seriously by others in the field." -Journal of Church and State
"GhaneaBassiri modestly pens not The History of Islam in America, but A History of Islam in America splendidly." -Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
"Of all the books under review, GhaneaBassiri's is the most self-conscious and rigorous in its methodology." -Middle East Journal
"...this scholarly book is a valuable and welcome contribution to the historical study of Islam in the West in general, and the United States in particular....The book is highly recommended, for it serves specialists and non-specialists alike." --Digest of Middle East Studies
"Of all the books under review, GhaneaBassiri's is the most self-conscious and rigorous in its methodology." -Bruce Lawrence, Middle East Journal
"GhaneaBassiri modestly pens not The History of Islam in America, but A History of Islam in America splendidly." --Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
"This book offers a much needed and richly detailed overview of the story of Islam and Muslims on this continent from earliest times to the present. An invaluable work." -Leila Ahmed, Harvard Divinity School
"This remarkable book draws on a broad range of primary and secondary sources to develop a new synthesis. It deepens our appreciation of Islam's internal diversity, reveals some of the different ways that Muslim identity has been improvised in inter-religious exchanges in America, and debunks stereotypes about what it means to be Muslim and American. This is a careful work of scholarship and a fascinating narrative history." -- Christopher G. White, Assistant Professor of Religion in America, Vassar College
"A History of Islam in America is a major step forward in understanding the encounters and exchanges between Muslims and non-Muslims in the US. This richly documented and fascinating analysis provides a powerful challenge to stereotypes that exclude Islam from the orbit of 'the West.' -- Carl W. Ernst, William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"This book is the most comprehensive historical monograph yet written about Islam in the United States." -Edward E. Curtis, Journal of American History
"...this scholarly book is a valuable and welcome contribution to the historical study of Islam in the West in general, and the United States in particular. The book's core thesis is the complexity and diversity of American Muslims' experience in the new world.The book is highly recommended,for it serves specialists and non-specialists alike." -Digest of Middle East Studies
"Professor GhaneaBassiri does an excellent job, and his encyclopedic, erudite, and objective study deserves to be read widely, and its arguments deserve to be taken seriously by others in the field." -Journal of Church and State
"GhaneaBassiri modestly pens not The History of Islam in America, but A History of Islam in America splendidly." -Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
"Of all the books under review, GhaneaBassiri's is the most self-conscious and rigorous in its methodology." -Middle East Journal
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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 is a unique and intelligent portrayal of a diverse religious community and its relationship with America.
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Professor Kambiz GhaneaBassiri's work is a welcomed addition to the growing scholarly literature on Islam in America.
What puts this apart from other works is his insistence in breaking away from the typical dichotomy of "Islam vs the West, " as if these two categories are mutually exclusive from each other. He argues this categorization and comparison is reminscent of Orientalism's comparison of "Islam vs. European Modernism." The author shows the development of Islam in America through the lense of American history itself: dealing with the changing aspects of race, religious pluralism, and national identity. It is an interesting read and will in my opinion, help change the views about Islam and Muslims in America.
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This book provides further research on figures such as Inyat Khan, Job ben Solomon,Alexander Russell Webb, Duse M Ali, the controversial Satti Majid etc. It reveals Duse's involvement as Exalted Ruler of the Order of Elks and Rosicrucianism through his European wife. It also delves into his relationship with the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam and serving as a bridge between Ahmadiyya & the U.N.I.A ORGS, there are some very interesting Ahmadiyya photographs. Duse himself studied under one Khwajah Kamel-ud-Din in Great Britain.Duse also associated with known 96degree Mason and Shriner Dr. Abdul Hamid of Kartoum Egypt. The common nexus of these groups was Detroit MI in the early to mid 1920s. In the 1950s many Jazz musicians converted to Islam via the Ahmadiyya (such as Ahmad Jamal, Art Blakely and McCoy Tyner).
The author makes the Masonic connections between Job Ben Solomon and the craft as well as the NOI, MST and UNIA; which I believe were largely "borrowed" from some "black" authors works from early 2005 without proper recognition or referencing (especially the constant use of the tell tale phrase [rise]). The author also gives the reader info on various Sufi orders pretty successfully. Overall not bad.
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