This book fills a void in the study of Muslims in the United States, presenting the first in-depth study of the large Muslim population in Los Angeles County. It examines an array of issues facing the American Muslim population, ranging from gender and ethnicity to political and "da 'wa" (missionary) activities. This study inquires into the role Muslims see for themselves and their religious tradition in the United States and presents the diverse views of Islam held by Muslims in America today. This work will be of interest to students and scholars of Islamic culture and religion, as well...
This book fills a void in the study of Muslims in the United States, presenting the first in-depth study of the large Muslim population in Los Ange...
Muslims began arriving in the New World long before the rise of the Atlantic slave trade. The first arrivals date to the turn of the sixteenth century when European explorers and colonists crossed the Atlantic in search of new horizons and trading routes. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri's fascinating book traces the history of Muslims in the United States and their different waves of immigration and conversion across five centuries, through colonial and antebellum America, through world wars and civil rights struggles, to the contemporary era. The book tells the often deeply moving stories of individual...
Muslims began arriving in the New World long before the rise of the Atlantic slave trade. The first arrivals date to the turn of the sixteenth century...
Pooyan Tamimi Arab Frank Peter Kambiz GhaneaBassiri
Public manifestations of Islam remain fiercely contested across the Global West. Studies to date have focused on the visual presence of Islam the construction of mosques or the veiling of Muslim women. Amplifying Islam in the European Soundscape is the first book to add a sonic dimension to analyses of the politics of Islamic aesthetics in Europe.
Sound does not respect public/private boundaries, and people experience sound viscerally. As such, the public amplification of the azan, the call to prayer, offers a unique opportunity to understand what is at stake in debates over...
Public manifestations of Islam remain fiercely contested across the Global West. Studies to date have focused on the visual presence of Islam the c...
The experiences of Bosnian Muslims with empire, nationalism and Islamism is unique on the one hand, and indicative on the other, of recent debates about the role of Islam in European secular nation-states.
Based on substantial fieldwork and thorough knowledge of written sources, Xavier Bougarel offers an innovative analysis of the post-Ottoman and post-Communist history of Bosnian Muslims. It explores little-known aspects of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, unravels the paradoxes of Bosniak national identity, and retraces the transformations of Bosnian Islam from the end of the...
The experiences of Bosnian Muslims with empire, nationalism and Islamism is unique on the one hand, and indicative on the other, of recent debates ...
