The Muslims of America (Oxford University Press, 1993)
Papers presented at a conference held on the Amherst Campus of the University of Massachusetts, April 1989 and sponsored by the Dept. of History, the Near East Area Studies Program, and the Arabic Club of the university. - Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1991
Includes bibliographical references
Introduction : the Muslims of America / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- Muslim organizations in the United States / Gutbi Mahdi Ahmed -- Estimate of Muslims living in America / Carol L. Stone -- Perspectives of the American churches on Islam and the Muslim community in North America / Byron L. Haines -- The Muslim as the "other" : representation and self-image of the Muslims in America / Abubaker al-Shingiety -- Ismail R. al-Faruqi : Muslim scholar-activist / John L. Esposito -- Seyyed Hossein Nasr : defender of the sacred and Islamic traditionalism / Jane I. Smith -- The legacy of Fazlur Rahman / Frederick M. Denny -- Political activity of Muslims in America / Steven A. Johnson -- Daẁah in the West / Larry A. Poston
Muslims in prison : claims to constitutional protection of religious liberty / Kathleen Moore -- Islamic education in the United States and Canada : conception and practice of the Islamic belief system / Nimat Hafez Barazangi -- African-American Muslim women / Beverly Thomas McCloud -- Two-way acculturation : Muslim women in America between individual choice (liminality) and community affiliation (communitas) / Marcia K. Hermansen -- Islamic issues for Muslims in the United States / John O. Voll -- American foreign policy in the Middle East and its impact on the identity of Arab Muslims in the United States / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- Convergence and divergence in an emergent community : a study of challenges facing U.S. Muslims / Sulayman S. Nyang
This collection brings together sixteen previously unpublished essays about the history, organization, challenges, responses, outstanding thinkers, and future prospects of the Muslim community in the United States and Canada. Both Muslims and non-Muslims are represented among the contributors, who include such leading Islamic scholars as John Esposito, Frederick Denny, Jane Smith, and John Voll. Focusing on the manner in which American Muslims adapt their institutions as they become increasingly an indigenous part of America, the essays discuss American Muslim self-images, perceptions of Muslims by non-Muslim Americans, leading American Muslim intellectuals, political activity of Muslims in America, Muslims in American prisons, Islamic education, the status of Muslim women in America, and the impact of American foreign policy on Muslims in the United States