Muslims in America : a short history /
Edward E. Curtis IV.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- xiv, 144 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
- Religion in American life. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-127) and index.
Across the black Atlantic : the first Muslims in North America -- The first American converts to Islam -- Twentieth-century Muslim immigrants : from the melting pot to the Cold War -- Religious awakenings of the late twentieth century -- Muslim Americans after 9/11.
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Discusses various historical details of Muslims in North America, from eighteenth-century African-American Muslim slaves through the struggles of Muslim Americans after 9/11, with an examination of the different incarnations of Islamic faith and the influence of Muslim Americans on various social and political movements in the United States.
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