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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.
List of Contributors
John L. Esposito (Georgetown University); Taha Jaber Alalwani (School of Islamic and Social Sciences); Omar Khalidi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Aminah Beverly McCloud (DePaul University); Ali A. Mazrui (State University of New York at Binghamton); Mohammed Nimer (CAIR); Jane I. Smith (Hartford Seminary); Sherman A. Jackson (University of Michigan); Zafar Ishaq Ansari (Islamic Research Institute, Pakistan); Sylviane A. Diouf (New York University); Ilyas Ba-Yunus and Kassim Stone (SUNY-Cortland); Ihsan Bagby (Shaw University); Iqbal J. Unus (International Institute of Islamic Thought)
About The Author
Zahid H. Bukhari is the director of the MAPS Project: Muslims in American Public Square, and fellow of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. Sulayman S. Nyang teaches at the Department of African Studies, Howard University and is author Islam in the United States. Mumtaz Ahmad is editor of the journal Studies in Contemporary Islam and is a professor of political science at Hampton University. John L. Esposito is university professor and director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding: History and International Affairs, at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
* Published by Altamira Press in April 2004
* Paperback edition, 400 pages
Table of Contents:
* Foreword: John L. Esposito (Georgetown University)
* Introduction
I: Theoretical Perspectives on the Muslim Experience in the U.S.
*Toward a Fiqh for Minorities: Some Reflections
Taha Jaber Alalwani (School of Islamic and Social Sciences)
* Living as a Muslim in a Pluralistic Society and State: Theory and Experience
Omar Khalidi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
* Conceptual Discourse: Living as a Muslim in a Pluralistic Society
Aminah Beverly McCloud (DePaul University)
II: The Mainstreaming of American Muslims: Historical and Sociological Understanding
* Muslims between the Jewish Example and the Black Experience: American Policy Implications
Ali A. Mazrui (State University of New York at Binghamton)
* Muslims and the American Body Politics
Mohammed Nimer (CAIR)
* Muslims as Partners in Interfaith Encounter
Jane I. Smith (Hartford Seminary)
III: Islam and the Black Experience in America
* Preliminary Reflections on Islam and Black Religion
Sherman A. Jackson (University of Michigan)
* Islam among African Americans: An Overview
Zafar Ishaq Ansari (Islamic Research Institute, Pakistan)
* The West African Paradox
Sylviane A. Diouf (New York University)
IV: On Locating Muslims in the American Landscape: Demographical and Behavioral Aspects
* Muslim Americans: A Demographic Report
Ilyas Ba-Yunus and Kassim Stone (SUNY-Cortland)
* The Mosque and the American Public Square
Ihsan Bagby (Shaw University)
* Governance and Leadership in Muslim Community Organizations
Iqbal J. Unus (International Institute of Islamic Thought)
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