Muslims in the United States

Ilyas Ba-Yunus, Kassim Kone

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Year: 2006
• eBook ISBN: 9780313060175
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

As a minority religion in a predominantly Christian country, America's Muslims face many difficulties - lack of understanding of their cultural traditions by the majority of their fellow citizens, threats to their civil liberties based on their beliefs and ethnicity, and challenges to retaining a Muslim identity within their community. Muslims in the United States clarifies this complex situation by explaining for a non-Muslim audience the basic teachings and practices of Islam, the history of Islam in the United States, and a discussion of how and where Muslims live in this country. The volume concludes with a discussion of the problems that Muslims have adjusting to American culture, and a description from the Muslim perspective of 9/11 and its aftermath. Muslims in the United States provides an objective overview of what it's like to live as a Muslim in the United States:
; Includes a history of Islam in America and a summary of what is known about the diversity of the Muslim population
; Examines the centrality of faith for the Muslims of the United States
; Analyzes the importance of women and the family
; Probes the troubles that Muslims have endured after 9/11

Table of contents

• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Islam as a Creed and a World Religion
• 2 Estimating the Muslim American Population
• 3 The Muslim Activist: Organizing Islam in America
• 4 Minarets on the Skyline: The Culture of the Muslim Community
• 5 The Muslim Woman in the United States
• 6 Guilty until Proven Innocent: The Aftermath of 9/11
• 7 Major Internal Concerns
• Glossary
• Index