The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism

ISBN-13: 9780521618076 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 324 str.

Timothy Marr

Opis

An analysis of the historical roots of today's conflicts between the US and the Muslim world.

Recenzje

"I find this text thoroughly engrossing and informative. His style of writing history is engaging and the contextualization enables readers to be 'be in the moment' with the actors. This text can be read from many perspectives and is certainly academic but also a book for the informed."
Journal of World History, Aminah Beverly McCloud, DePaul University

Spis treści

Introduction: imagining Ishmael: introducing American Islamicism; 1. Islamicism and counterdespotism in early national cultural expression; 2. 'Drying up the Euphrates': Muslims, millennialism, and early American missionary enterprise; 3. Antebellum Islamicism and the transnational crusade of antislavery and temperance reform; 4. 'Turkey is in our midst': Mormonism as an American 'Islam'; 5. American Ishmael: Herman Melville's literary Islamicism; Conclusion: American Howadjis: the gendered pageantry of mid-nineteenth-century Islamicism.