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Explores modern African-American Islamic thought within the context
of Islamic history, giving special attention to questions of
universality versus particularity.
Uncovers the surprising history of Muslim life in the early
American Midwest The American Midwest is often thought of as
uniformly white, and shaped exclusively by Christian values.
However, this view of the region as an unvarying landscape fails to
consider a significant community at its very heart. Muslims of the
Heartland uncovers the long history of Muslims in a part of the
country where many readers would not expect to find them. Edward E.
Curtis IV, a descendant of Syrian Midwesterners, vividly portrays
the intrepid men and women who busted sod on the short-grass
prairies of the Dakotas, peddled needles and lace on the streets of
Cedar Rapids, and worked in the railroad car factories of Michigan
City. This intimate portrait follows the stories of individuals
such as farmer Mary Juma, pacifist Kassem Rameden, poet Aliya
Hassen, and bookmaker Kamel Osman from the early 1900s through
World War I, the Roaring 20s, the Great Depression, and World War
II. Its story-driven approach places Syrian Americans at the center
of key American institutions like the assembly line, the family
farm, the dance hall, and the public school, showing how the first
two generations of Midwestern Syrians created a life that was Arab,
Muslim, and American, all at the same time. Muslims of the
Heartland recreates what the Syrian Muslim Midwest looked, sounded,
felt, and smelled like—from the allspice-seasoned lamb and rice
shared in mosque basements to the sound of the trains on the Rock
Island Line rolling past the dry goods store. It recovers a
multicultural history of the American Midwest that cannot be
ignored.
An introduction to the ways in which ordinary Muslim Americans
practice their faith. Muslims have always been part of the United
States, but very little is known about how Muslim Americans
practice their religion. How do they pray? What's it like to go on
pilgrimage to Mecca? What rituals accompany the birth of a child, a
wedding, or the death of a loved one? What holidays do Muslims
celebrate and what charities do they support? How do they learn
about the Qur'an? The Practice of Islam in America introduces
readers to the way Islam is lived in the United States, offering
vivid portraits of Muslim American life passages, ethical actions,
religious holidays, prayer, pilgrimage, and other religious
activities. It takes readers into homes, religious congregations,
schools, workplaces, cemeteries, restaurants-and all the way to
Mecca-to understand the diverse religious practices of Muslim
Americans. Going beyond a theoretical discussion of what Muslims
are supposed to do, this volume focuses on what they actually do.
As the volume reveals, their religious practices are shaped by
their racial and ethnic identity, their gender and sexual
orientation, and their sectarian identity, among other social
factors. Readers gain practical information about Islamic religion
while also coming to understand how the day-to-day realities of
American life shape Muslim American practice.
Uncovers the surprising history of Muslim life in the early
American Midwest The American Midwest is often thought of as
uniformly white, and shaped exclusively by Christian values.
However, this view of the region as an unvarying landscape fails to
consider a significant community at its very heart. Muslims of the
Heartland uncovers the long history of Muslims in a part of the
country where many readers would not expect to find them. Edward E.
Curtis IV, a descendant of Syrian Midwesterners, vividly portrays
the intrepid men and women who busted sod on the short-grass
prairies of the Dakotas, peddled needles and lace on the streets of
Cedar Rapids, and worked in the railroad car factories of Michigan
City. This intimate portrait follows the stories of individuals
such as farmer Mary Juma, pacifist Kassem Rameden, poet Aliya
Hassen, and bookmaker Kamel Osman from the early 1900s through
World War I, the Roaring 20s, the Great Depression, and World War
II. Its story-driven approach places Syrian Americans at the center
of key American institutions like the assembly line, the family
farm, the dance hall, and the public school, showing how the first
two generations of Midwestern Syrians created a life that was Arab,
Muslim, and American, all at the same time. Muslims of the
Heartland recreates what the Syrian Muslim Midwest looked, sounded,
felt, and smelled like-from the allspice-seasoned lamb and rice
shared in mosque basements to the sound of the trains on the Rock
Island Line rolling past the dry goods store. It recovers a
multicultural history of the American Midwest that cannot be
ignored.
An introduction to the ways in which ordinary Muslim Americans
practice their faith. Muslims have always been part of the United
States, but very little is known about how Muslim Americans
practice their religion. How do they pray? What's it like to go on
pilgrimage to Mecca? What rituals accompany the birth of a child, a
wedding, or the death of a loved one? What holidays do Muslims
celebrate and what charities do they support? How do they learn
about the Qur'an? The Practice of Islam in America introduces
readers to the way Islam is lived in the United States, offering
vivid portraits of Muslim American life passages, ethical actions,
religious holidays, prayer, pilgrimage, and other religious
activities. It takes readers into homes, religious congregations,
schools, workplaces, cemeteries, restaurants-and all the way to
Mecca-to understand the diverse religious practices of Muslim
Americans. Going beyond a theoretical discussion of what Muslims
are supposed to do, this volume focuses on what they actually do.
As the volume reveals, their religious practices are shaped by
their racial and ethnic identity, their gender and sexual
orientation, and their sectarian identity, among other social
factors. Readers gain practical information about Islamic religion
while also coming to understand how the day-to-day realities of
American life shape Muslim American practice.
Reveals the important role of Muslim Americans in American politics
Since the 1950s, and especially in the post-9/11 era, Muslim
Americans have played outsized roles in US politics, sometimes as
political dissidents and sometimes as political insiders. However,
more than at any other moment in history, Muslim Americans now
stand at the symbolic center of US politics and public life. This
volume argues that the future of American democracy depends on
whether Muslim Americans are able to exercise their political
rights as citizens and whether they can find acceptance as social
equals. Many believe that, over time, Muslim Americans will be
accepted just as other religious minorities have been. Yet Curtis
contends that this belief overlooks the real barrier to their full
citizenship, which is political rather than cultural. The dominant
form of American liberalism has prevented the political
assimilation of American Muslims, even while leaders from
Eisenhower to Obama have offered rhetorical support for their
acceptance. Drawing on examples ranging from the political rhetoric
of the Nation of Islam in the 1950s and 1960s to the symbolic use
of fallen Muslim American service members in the 2016 election
cycle, Curtis shows that the efforts of Muslim Americans to be
regarded as full Americans have been going on for decades, yet
never with full success. Curtis argues that policies, laws, and
political rhetoric concerning Muslim Americans are quintessential
American political questions. Debates about freedom of speech and
religion, equal justice under law, and the war on terrorism have
placed Muslim Americans at the center of public discourse. How
Americans decide to view and make policy regarding Muslim Americans
will play a large role in what kind of country the United States
will become, and whether it will be a country that chooses freedom
over fear and justice over prejudice.
Muslims are neither new nor foreign to the United States. They have
been a vital presence in North America since the 16th century.
Muslims in America unearths their history, documenting the lives of
African, Middle Eastern, South Asian, European, black, white,
Hispanic and other Americans who have been followers of Islam.
The book begins with the tale of Job Ben Solomon, a 18th century
African American Muslim slave, and goes on to chart the stories of
sodbusters in North Dakota, African American converts to Islam in
the 1920s, Muslim barkeepers in Toledo, the post-1965 wave of
professional immigrants from Asia and Africa, and Muslim Americans
after 9/11. The book reveals the richness of Sunni, Shi'a, Sufi and
other forms of Islamic theology, ethics, and rituals in the United
States by illustrating the way Islamic faith has been imagined and
practiced in the everyday lives of individuals. Muslims inAmerica
recovers the place of Muslims in the larger American story, too.
Showing how Muslim American men and women participated in each era
of U.S. history, the book explores how they have both shaped and
have been shaped by larger historical trends such as the abolition
movement, Gilded Age immigration, the Great Migration of African
Americans, urbanization, religious revivalism, the feminist
movement, and the current war on terror. It also shows how, from
the very beginning of American history, Muslim Americans have been
at once a part of their local communities, their nation, and the
worldwide community of Muslims.
The first single-author history of Muslims in America from
colonial times to the present, this book fills a huge gap and
provides invaluable background on one of the most poorly understood
groups in the United States.
Religion in American Life explores the evolution, character, and
dynamic of organized religion in America from 1500 to the present
day. Written by distinguished historians of religion, these books
weave together the varying stories that compose the religious
fabric of the United States, from Puritanism to alternative
religious practices. Primary source material coupled with handsome
illustrations and lucid text make these books essential in any
exploration of America's diverse nature. Each book includes a
chronology, suggestions for further reading, and an index.
Reveals the important role of Muslim Americans in American politics
Since the 1950s, and especially in the post-9/11 era, Muslim
Americans have played outsized roles in US politics, sometimes as
political dissidents and sometimes as political insiders. However,
more than at any other moment in history, Muslim Americans now
stand at the symbolic center of US politics and public life. This
volume argues that the future of American democracy depends on
whether Muslim Americans are able to exercise their political
rights as citizens and whether they can find acceptance as social
equals. Many believe that, over time, Muslim Americans will be
accepted just as other religious minorities have been. Yet Curtis
contends that this belief overlooks the real barrier to their full
citizenship, which is political rather than cultural. The dominant
form of American liberalism has prevented the political
assimilation of American Muslims, even while leaders from
Eisenhower to Obama have offered rhetorical support for their
acceptance. Drawing on examples ranging from the political rhetoric
of the Nation of Islam in the 1950s and 1960s to the symbolic use
of fallen Muslim American service members in the 2016 election
cycle, Curtis shows that the efforts of Muslim Americans to be
regarded as full Americans have been going on for decades, yet
never with full success. Curtis argues that policies, laws, and
political rhetoric concerning Muslim Americans are quintessential
American political questions. Debates about freedom of speech and
religion, equal justice under law, and the war on terrorism have
placed Muslim Americans at the center of public discourse. How
Americans decide to view and make policy regarding Muslim Americans
will play a large role in what kind of country the United States
will become, and whether it will be a country that chooses freedom
over fear and justice over prejudice.
How do people in the African diaspora practice Islam? While the
term "Black Muslim" may conjure images of Malcolm X and Muhammad
Ali, millions of African-descended Muslims around the globe have no
connection to the American-based Nation of Islam. The Call of Bilal
is a penetrating account of the rich diversity of Islamic religious
practice among Africana Muslims worldwide. Covering North Africa
and the Middle East, India and Pakistan, Europe, and the Americas,
Edward E. Curtis IV reveals a fascinating range of religious
activities - from the observance of the five pillars of Islam and
the creation of transnational Sufi networks to the veneration of
African saints and political struggles for racial justice. Weaving
together ethnographic fieldwork and historical perspectives, Curtis
shows how Africana Muslims interpret not only their religious
identities but also their attachments to the African diaspora. For
some, the dispersal of African people across time and space has
been understood as a mere physical scattering or perhaps an
economic opportunity. For others, it has been a metaphysical and
spiritual exile of the soul from its sacred land and eternal home.
Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam came to America's attention in
the 1960s and 1970s as a radical separatist African American social
and political group. But the movement was also a religious one.
Edward E. Curtis IV offers the first comprehensive examination of
the rituals, ethics, theologies, and religious narratives of the
Nation of Islam, showing how the movement combined elements of
Afro-Eurasian Islamic traditions with African American traditions
to create a new form of Islamic faith. Considering everything from
bean pies to religious cartoons, clothing styles to prayer rituals,
Curtis explains how the practice of Islam in the movement included
the disciplining and purifying of the black body, the reorientation
of African American historical consciousness toward the Muslim
world, an engagement with both mainstream Islamic texts and the
prophecies of Elijah Muhammad, and the development of a holistic
approach to political, religious, and social liberation. Curtis'
analysis pushes beyond essentialist ideas about what it means to be
Muslim and offers a view of the importance of local processes in
identity formation and the appropriation of Islamic traditions.
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