Islam In Urban America

Author : Garbi Schmidt
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1592132243

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Islam in Urban America by Garbi Schmidt Pdf

In recent years, world events have trained a harsh spotlight on the Muslim religion and its adherents. The misunderstanding and bias against Muslims in the United States not only persists but has deepened. In this detailed study of an immigrant community in Chicago, Garbi Schmidt considers the formation and meaning of an "American Islam." This vivid portrait of the people and the institutions that draw them together contributes to the academic literature on ethnic and religious identity at the same time as it depicts an immigrant community's struggle against bias and forces that threaten its cohesion. Chicago has long been home to Muslim immigrants from numerous countries in the Middle East and South Asia. For some members of these groups religion carries more weight than ethnic identity in the American context and enables them to form and participate in a broad spectrum of institutions that support their religious and social interests. Schmidt offers her observations of the schools and student associations that serve young Muslims as well as the social, religious, and political organizations that serve adults. By looking at the ways in which children, adolescents, and adults come together in these institutions, she is able to show the dynamic process in which a variegated American Muslim identity takes shape. Readers will come away from this book with a better understanding of the ideological and cultural differences among Muslims and a greater appreciation of their struggles in becoming Americans. Author note: Garbi Schmidt is a senior researcher and coordinator of the ethnic minorities initiative at the Danish National Institute of Social Research, Copenhagen.

Author : Petra Kuppinger
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782386575

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Faithfully Urban by Petra Kuppinger Pdf

In the southern German city of Stuttgart lives a pious Muslim population that has merged with the local population to create a meaningful shared existence. In this ethnographic account, the author introduces and examines the lives of ordinary residents, neighborhoods, and mosque communities to analyze moments and spaces where Muslims and non-Muslims engage with each other and accommodate their respective needs. These accounts show that even in the face of resentment and discrimination, this pious population has indeed become an integral part of the urban community.

Author : Mika'il Stewart Saadiq
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1511773073

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Islamic Lifestyles in Urban America by Mika'il Stewart Saadiq Pdf

A collection of Commentaries, Articles, and Notes supported by proofs from the Qur'an and Way of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh); with some focus on the experiences of Black Americans

Author : Michael Nash
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015073916044

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Islam Among Urban Blacks by Michael Nash Pdf

This book examines the evolution of Muslim community development in Newark, New Jersey. It is an historical account of the efforts of a diverse community that over several decades grappled with the challenge of establishing a respected place for their Islamic lifestyle within the United States. Further, it is a story linked closely to the experience of African Americans who have claimed Islam as their religion and struggled to create and to maintain an identity in the social fabric of Newark's twentieth-century Black religious culture. The complexities of race, identity, inter-religious and intra-religious relations are the four central themes explored.

Author : Richard Brent Turner
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0253343232

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Islam in the African-American Experience by Richard Brent Turner Pdf

The involvement of African Americans with Islam reaches back to the earliest days of the African presence in North America. This book explores these roots in the Middle East, West Africa and antebellum America.

Author : Mbaye Lo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : NWU:35556041000951

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Muslims in America by Mbaye Lo Pdf

Author : John O'Brien
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400888696

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Keeping It Halal by John O'Brien Pdf

A compelling portrait of a group of boys as they navigate the complexities of being both American teenagers and good Muslims This book provides a uniquely personal look at the social worlds of a group of young male friends as they navigate the complexities of growing up Muslim in America. Drawing on three and a half years of intensive fieldwork in and around a large urban mosque, John O’Brien offers a compelling portrait of typical Muslim American teenage boys concerned with typical teenage issues—girlfriends, school, parents, being cool—yet who are also expected to be good, practicing Muslims who don’t date before marriage, who avoid vulgar popular culture, and who never miss their prayers. Many Americans unfamiliar with Islam or Muslims see young men like these as potential ISIS recruits. But neither militant Islamism nor Islamophobia is the main concern of these boys, who are focused instead on juggling the competing cultural demands that frame their everyday lives. O’Brien illuminates how they work together to manage their “culturally contested lives” through subtle and innovative strategies—such as listening to profane hip-hop music in acceptably “Islamic” ways, professing individualism to cast their participation in communal religious obligations as more acceptably American, dating young Muslim women in ambiguous ways that intentionally complicate adjudications of Islamic permissibility, and presenting a “low-key Islam” in public in order to project a Muslim identity without drawing unwanted attention. Closely following these boys as they move through their teen years together, Keeping It Halal sheds light on their strategic efforts to manage their day-to-day cultural dilemmas as they devise novel and dynamic modes of Muslim American identity in a new and changing America.

Author : Alisa Perkins
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479814497

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Muslim American City by Alisa Perkins Pdf

Explores how Muslim Americans test the boundaries of American pluralism In 2004, the al-Islah Islamic Center in Hamtramck, Michigan, set off a contentious controversy when it requested permission to use loudspeakers to broadcast the adhān, or Islamic call to prayer. The issue gained international notoriety when media outlets from around the world flocked to the city to report on what had become a civil battle between religious tolerance and Islamophobic sentiment. The Hamtramck council voted unanimously to allow mosques to broadcast the adhān, making it one of the few US cities to officially permit it through specific legislation. Muslim American City explores how debates over Muslim Americans’ use of both public and political space have challenged and ultimately reshaped the boundaries of urban belonging. Drawing on more than ten years of ethnographic research in Hamtramck, which boasts one of the largest concentrations of Muslim residents of any American city, Alisa Perkins shows how the Muslim American population has grown and asserted itself in public life. She explores, for example, the efforts of Muslim American women to maintain gender norms in neighborhoods, mosques, and schools, as well as Muslim Americans’ efforts to organize public responses to municipal initiatives. Her in-depth fieldwork incorporates the perspectives of both Muslims and non-Muslims, including Polish Catholics, African American Protestants, and other city residents. Drawing particular attention to Muslim American expressions of religious and cultural identity in civil life—particularly in response to discrimination and stereotyping—Perkins questions the popular assumption that the religiosity of Muslim minorities hinders their capacity for full citizenship in secular societies. She shows how Muslims and non-Muslims have, through their negotiations over the issues over the use of space, together invested Muslim practice with new forms of social capital and challenged nationalist and secularist notions of belonging.

Author : Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479894505

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Muslim Cool by Su'ad Abdul Khabeer Pdf

Interviews with young Muslims in Chicago explore the complexity of identities formed at the crossroads of Islam and hip hop This groundbreaking study of race, religion and popular culture in the 21st century United States focuses on a new concept, “Muslim Cool.” Muslim Cool is a way of being an American Muslim—displayed in ideas, dress, social activism in the ’hood, and in complex relationships to state power. Constructed through hip hop and the performance of Blackness, Muslim Cool is a way of engaging with the Black American experience by both Black and non-Black young Muslims that challenges racist norms in the U.S. as well as dominant ethnic and religious structures within American Muslim communities. Drawing on over two years of ethnographic research, Su'ad Abdul Khabeer illuminates the ways in which young and multiethnic US Muslims draw on Blackness to construct their identities as Muslims. This is a form of critical Muslim self-making that builds on interconnections and intersections, rather than divisions between “Black” and “Muslim.” Thus, by countering the notion that Blackness and the Muslim experience are fundamentally different, Muslim Cool poses a critical challenge to dominant ideas that Muslims are “foreign” to the United States and puts Blackness at the center of the study of American Islam. Yet Muslim Cool also demonstrates that connections to Blackness made through hip hop are critical and contested—critical because they push back against the pervasive phenomenon of anti-Blackness and contested because questions of race, class, gender, and nationality continue to complicate self-making in the United States.

Author : Sylvia Chan-Malik
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479850600

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Being Muslim by Sylvia Chan-Malik Pdf

"Four american moslem ladies": early U.S. Muslim women in the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, 1920-1923 -- Insurgent domesticity: race and gender in representations of NOI Muslim women during the Cold War era -- Garments for one another: Islam and marriage in the lives of Betty Shabazz and Dakota Staton -- Chadors, feminists, terror: constructing a U.S. American discourse of the veil -- A third language: Muslim feminism in Smerica -- Conclusion: Soul Flower Farm

Author : Michael A. Köszegi,J. Gordon Melton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138289256

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Islam in North America by Michael A. Köszegi,J. Gordon Melton Pdf

First published in 1992, this book focuses on the Muslim community and how it has developed in North America. Divided into eight sections, it traces the history of the Muslim community in North America from the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth-century and examines different aspects of the community such as Sectarian Movements, Islam in the African American community and points of contact between Christian and Islamic communities. The text includes a number of bibliographies to aid further study and closes with a helpful directory of Muslim organizations and centers in North America. This book will be of particular interest to those studying Islam and Religion in North America.

Author : Amira K. Bennison,Alison L. Gascoigne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134096497

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Cities in the Pre-Modern Islamic World by Amira K. Bennison,Alison L. Gascoigne Pdf

Wide range of case studies across the Islamic world Provides a new interdisciplinary perspective on the Islamic city Well illustrated with maps and photographs The mix of contributors is good, from well established and highly respected academics to younger, upcoming talents The issue of urbanism in the Islamic world is an enduringly popular area of study and investigation

Author : Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad,Jane I. Smith
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994-08-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791420205

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Muslim Communities in North America by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad,Jane I. Smith Pdf

This book provides the first in-depth look at Muslim life and institutions forming in North America. It considers the range of Islamic life in North America with its different racial-ethnic and cultural identities, customs, and religious orientations. Issues of acculturation, ethnicity, orthodoxy, and the changing roles of women are brought into focus. The authors provide insight into the lives of recent immigrants who are asking what is Islamically appropriate in a non-Muslim environment. Contrasts are drawn between Sunni and Shi'i groups, and attention is given to the activities of some Sufi organizations. The growing Islamic community among African-American Muslims is examined, including the followers of Warith Deen Muhammed and the sectarians identified with black power, such as the Nation of Islam, Darul Islam, and the Five Percenters. The authors document the challenges and issues that American Muslims face, such as prejudice and racism; pressure from overseas Muslims; dress and education; the influence of Islamic revivalism on the development of the community in this country; and the maintenance of Muslim identity amidst the pressure for assimilation.

Author : Masashi Haneda,Tōru Miura
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009799508

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Islamic Urban Studies by Masashi Haneda,Tōru Miura Pdf

"The history of urban studies concerning the Islamic world in terms of theme, motif and methodology is the subject of this innovative work. While previous studies have tended to link the cities of the Islamic world with Islam as a religion and culture in an attempt to understand them as a whole in a unified and uniform way, there have been very few attempts to examine and compare the cities in their diversity of climate, landscape, population and historical background, which is the approach taken here." "The study has two foci. First, it coordinates the main research that has been done since the 19th century in regard to the cities of five regions that came under the sway of Islam comparatively early: the Maghrib (the Western Arab lands), the Mashriq (the Eastern Arab lands), Turkey, Iran and Central Asia. Second, through comparing the history of scholarship regarding the cities of these five regions, it throws light on the issues that have exercised academic concern in urban studies of the Islamic world as a whole to the present, and suggests new perspectives for future work." "Such a survey of the history of scholarship covering the vast area of the Middle East has not been undertaken previously, which speaks of the difficulty and significance of the project. This challenging work, which arises from the large 'Urbanism in Islam: A Comparative Study' project centred on the Institute of Oriental Culture at the University of Tokyo, has been undertaken in the firm conviction that if no attempt is made to consolidate and examine the existing scholarship on the field, it will be impossible to understand truly the cities of the Islamic world. Apart from the unique contribution it makes to Islamic urban studies, the volume has wider applications to the fields of urban studies and history in general."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Paul David Numrich,Elfriede Wedam
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199386840

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Religion and Community in the New Urban America by Paul David Numrich,Elfriede Wedam Pdf

This study examines the interrelated transformations of cities and urban congregations over the past several decades. How does the new metropolis affect local religious communities? What is the role of local religious communities in creating the new metropolis? Through an in-depth study of fifteen Chicago congregations - Catholic parishes, Protestant churches, Jewish synagogues, Muslim mosques, and a Hindu temple, city and suburban, neighbourhood-based and commuter - this book describes congregational life and measures congregational influences on urban environments.