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Title

Muslims on the Americanization path? / edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, John L. Esposito.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck, 1935-
• Esposito, John L.

Description

ix, 361 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

There are now more Muslims in America than in Kuwait, Qatar, and Libya combined. It is the second largest religion in France and the third in Britain, Germany, and North America. Leaving aside immigration and conversion, birth rate alone ensures that in the first part of the twenty-first century Islam will replace Judaism as the second largest religion in the United States. Like all religious and ethnic minorities in America, Muslims must confront a host of difficult questions. Can they become part of a pluralistic American society without sacrificing their identity? Can Muslims be Muslims in a state that is not governed by Islamic law? Will the American legal system protect Muslim religious and cultural differences? Is there a contradiction between demanding equal rights and insisting on maintaining a distinctively separate identity? In this wide-ranging volume, fourteen distinguished scholars take an in-depth look at these issues and examine the varied responses and opinions of the Muslim community. --Publisher description.

Subjects

• Electronic books
• Purdah > North America
• Islam > United States
• Muslims > United States

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

Note

• Originally published: Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, 1998.
• "First published in 2000 as an Oxford University Press paperback"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-361).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The dynamics of Islamic identity in North America / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- Striking a balance : Islamic legal discourses on Muslim minorities / Khaled Abou El Fadl -- The Fiqh councilor in North America / Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo -- Muslims and identity politics in America / Mohommed A. Muqtedar Khan -- The hijab and religious liberty : anti-discrimination law and Muslim women in the United States / Kathleen Moore -- Muslim women in Canada : their role and status as revealed in the hijab controversy / Esmail Shakeri.
• American women choosing Islam / Carol Anway -- Identity and destiny : the formative views of the Moorish Science Temple and the Nation of Islam / Ernest Ailen, Jr. -- African-American Muslims and the question of identity : between traditional Islam, African heritage, and the American way / Yusuf Nuruddin -- Understanding the multi-ethnic dilemma of African-American Muslims / Robert Dannin -- Muslims and the American press / Greg Noakes -- Economic security and Muslim identity : a study of the immigrant community in Durham, North Carolina / Elise Goldwasser -- Approaches to Mosque design in North America / Omar Khalidi.

ISBN

• 0195135261 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780195135268

LCCN

• ^^^00022101^
• ^^^98006046^

OCLC

• 43441532
• SCSB-10448881

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library