The Cambridge Companion to American Islam

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the past and present of American Muslim communities.

Juliane Hammer (Edited by), Omid Safi (Edited by)

9781107002418, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 12 August 2013

386 pages, 10 b/w illus.
23.5 x 15.8 x 2.5 cm, 0.64 kg

'A constructive and timely overview of current research on American Islam.' The Times Literary Supplement

The Cambridge Companion to American Islam offers a scholarly overview of the state of research on American Muslims and American Islam. The book presents the reader with a comprehensive discussion of the debates, challenges and opportunities that American Muslims have faced through centuries of American history. This volume also covers the creative ways in which American Muslims have responded to the myriad serious challenges that they have faced and continue to face in constructing a religious praxis and complex identities that are grounded in both a universal tradition and the particularities of their local contexts. The book introduces the reader to some of the many facets of the lives of American Muslims that can only be understood in their interactions with Islam's entanglement in the American experiment.

1. The study of American Muslims: a history Edward E. Curtis, IV
2. African Muslim slaves and Islam in antebellum America Richard Brent Turner
3. Laying the groundwork for American Muslim histories: 1865–1965 Sally Howell
4. American Muslims in the contemporary world: 1965 to the present Zain Abdullah
5. Converts and conversions Michael Muhammad Knight
6. Demographics, political participation, and representation Amaney Jamal and Liali Albana
7. American Muslims and the media Nabil Echchaibi
8. Muslims in the American legal system Kathleen M. Moore
9. Religious pluralism, secularism, and interfaith Rosemary R. Hicks
10. Organizing communities: institutions, networks, groups Karen Leonard
11. Negotiating boundaries: American Sufis Gisela Webb
12. Religious normativity and praxis among American Muslims Kambiz GhaneaBassiri
13. Muslim spaces and mosque architecture Akel Ismail Kahera
14. Islamic education in the United States: debates, practices, and institutions Zareena Grewal and R. David Coolidge
15. Muslim public intellectuals and global Muslim thought Timur Yuskaev
16. Cultural and literary production of Muslim America Sylvia Chan-Malik
17. Muslim youth cultures Su'ad Abdul Khabeer and Maytha Alhassen
18. Sexual identity, marriage, and family Debra Majeed
19. Studying American Muslim women: between feminism, activism, and secular society Juliane Hammer.

Subject Areas: Islamic studies [JFSR2], Islam [HRH], Philosophy of religion [HRAB], History of the Americas [HBJK]