In this cultural history of Americans' engagement with Islam in the
colonial and antebellum period, Timothy Marr analyzes the
historical roots of how the Muslim world figured in American
prophecy, politics, reform, fiction, art and dress. Marr argues
that perceptions of the Muslim world, long viewed not only as both
an anti-Christian and despotic threat but also as an exotic other,
held a larger place in domestic American concerns than previously
thought. Historical, literary, and imagined encounters with Muslim
history and practices provided a backdrop where different Americans
oriented the direction of their national project, the morality of
the social institutions, and the contours of their romantic
imaginations. This history sits as an important background to help
understand present conflicts between the Muslim world and the
United States.
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