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The timeless insight of Islam's sacred writings can enrich your own
spiritual journey. For many in the West, the teachings of the
Qur’an often are enshrouded in mystery and fear. Yet Islam’s
holy book gave birth to one of the most powerful and enlightened
civilizations the world has ever seen. By the sixteenth century,
Muslim culture stretched from India to Africa to Europe, preserving
with it the ancient learning that helped spawn the Renaissance.
With its interwoven ideas of faith and reason, justice and mercy,
the path of Islam—which literally means "surrendering to God’s
will"—offers a uniquely focused and balanced approach to living
life with a profound awareness of God. With gentleness and insight,
Sohaib N. Sultan leads you through the central themes of both the
Qur’an and the collected sayings of Prophet Muhammad, known as
hadith. These teachings dispel common misconceptions about Muslim
beliefs and offer practical guidance for your own spiritual
journey, from understanding the merciful nature of God; to
cultivating peace and justice in the self, family, and society; to
answering questions about the afterlife and how to attain it. Now
you can experience the wisdom of Qur’anic teachings even if you
have no previous knowledge of Islam or Muslim writings. Insightful
yet unobtrusive facing-page commentary explains the texts for you,
allowing you to enter into the path of surrender to God.
Although they are typically portrayed by the media as dangerous
extremists in distant lands, Muslims in fact form a permanent,
peaceful and growing population in nearly every Western country.
While Westerners are now more commonly seeing mosques in their
neighborhoods or scarved Muslim women in their streets,
misperceptions and stereotypes remain. With expanding numbers and
desires to protect their rights and identities, Muslims are coming
into more and more into the public view. In Muslim Minorites in the
West noted scholars Haddad and Smith bring together outstanding
essays on the distinct experiences of minority Muslim communities
from Detroit, Michigan to Perth, Australia and the wide range of
issues facing them. Haddad and Smith in their introduction trace
the broad contours of the Muslim experience in Europe, America and
other areas of European settlement and shed light on the common
questions minority Muslims face of assimilation, discrimination,
evangelism, and politics. Muslim Minorities in the West provides a
welcome introduction to these increasingly visible citizens of
Western nations.
Islam has been part of the increasingly complex American religious
scene for well over a century, and was brought into more dramatic
focus by the attacks of September 11, 2001. American Islam is
practiced by a unique blend of immigrants and American-born
Muslims. The immigrants have come from all corners of the world;
they include rich and poor, well-educated and illiterate, those
from upper and lower classes as well as economic and political
refugees. The community's diversity has been enhanced by the
conversion of African Americans, Latina/os, and others, making it
the most heterogeneous Muslim community in the world.
With an up-to-the-minute analysis by thirty of the top scholars in
the field, this handbook covers the growth of Islam in America from
the earliest Muslims to set foot on American soil to the current
wave of Islamophobia. Topics covered include the development of
African American Islam; pre- and post-WWII immigrants; Sunni,
Shi'ite, sectarian and Sufi movements in America; the role and
status of women, marriage, and family; and the Americanization of
Islamic culture.
Throughout these chapters the contributors explore the meaning of
religious identity in the context of race, ethnicity, gender, and
politics, both within the American Islamic community and in
relation to international Islam.
The treatment and role of women is one of the most discussed and
controversial aspects of Islam. In this volume, three respected
scholars of Islam survey the situation of women in Islam, focusing
on how Muslim views about and experiences of gender are changing in
the Western diaspora. It offers an overview of the teachings of the
Qur'an and the Prophet Muhammad on gender, analyzes the ways in
which the West has historically viewed Muslim women, and examines
how the Muslim world has changed in response to Western critiques.
The volume then centers on the Muslim experience in America,
examining Muslim American analyses of gender, Muslim attempts to
form a new "American" Islam, and the legal issues surrounding equal
rights for Muslim females. Such specific issues as dress, marriage,
child custody, and asylum are addressed. It also looks at the ways
in which American Muslim women have tried to create new paradigms
of Islamic womanhood and are reinterpreting the traditions apart
from the males who control the mosque institutions.
Once a year Muslims from around the world-representing a vast range
of ethnicities, incomes, ages, and attitudes-perform the Hajj
(pilgrimage) and converge in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi
Arabia. Now, the global diversity of Muslims at the Hajj is almost
repliacted in the United States: new immigrants, Muslims whose
families have been here for generations, and converts are coming
together, seeing what unites them and what issues they face
together. Project MAPS (Muslims in the American Public Square)
began in 1999 to provide much-needed information on this
understudied and immensely diverse group of six million Americans.
This first volume emerging from the project, Muslims' Place in the
American Public Square, shows where the American Muslim community
fits into the American religious and civic landscape both before
and after 9/11. Renowned scholars contribute theoretical, legal,
historical, and sociological perspectives on how Muslims function
in both their own institutions and others. For classes in religion
or the social sciences, or for anyone interested in this
increasingly significant community, Muslims' Place in the American
Public Square provides a current, balanced introduction.
As the U.S. Muslim population continues to grow, Islamic schools
are springing up across the American landscape. Especially since
the events of 9/11, many have become concerned about what kind of
teaching is going on behind the walls of these schools, and whether
it might serve to foster the seditious purposes of Islamist
extremism. The essays collected in this volume look behind those
walls and discover both efforts to provide excellent instruction
following national educational standards and attempts to inculcate
Islamic values and protect students from what are seen as the
dangers of secularism and the compromising values of American
culture. Also considered here are other dimensions of American
Islamic education, including: new forms of institutions for youth
and college-age Muslims; home-schooling; the impact of educational
media on young children; and the kind of training being offered by
Muslim chaplains in universities, hospitals, prisons, and other
such settings. Finally the authors look at the ways in which
Muslims are rising to the task of educating the American public
about Islam in the face of increasing hostility and prejudice. This
timely volume is the first dedicated entirely to the neglected
topic of Islamic education.
The treatment and role of women are among the most discussed and
controversial aspects of Islam. The rights of Muslim women have
become part of the Western political agenda, often perpetuating a
stereotype of universal oppression. Muslim women living in America
continue to be marginalized and misunderstood since the 9/11
terrorist attacks. Yet their contributions are changing the face of
Islam as it is seen both within Muslim communities in the West and
by non-Muslims. In their public and private lives, Muslim women are
actively negotiating what it means to be a woman and a Muslim in an
American context.
Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Jane I. Smith, and Kathleen M. Moore offer
a much-needed survey of the situation of Muslim American women,
focusing on how Muslim views about and experiences of gender are
changing in the Western diaspora. Centering on Muslims in America,
the book investigates Muslim attempts to form a new "American"
Islam. Such specific issues as dress, marriage, childrearing,
conversion, and workplace discrimination are addressed. The authors
also look at the ways in which American Muslim women have tried to
create new paradigms of Islamic womanhood and are reinterpreting
the traditions apart from the males who control the mosque
institutions. A final chapter asks whether 9/11 will prove to have
been a watershed moment for Muslim women in America.
This groundbreaking work presents the diversity of Muslim American
women and demonstrates the complexity of the issues. Impeccably
researched and accessible, it broadens our understanding of Islam
in the West and encourages further exploration into how Muslim
women are shaping the future of American Islam.
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