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Author Hussain, Amir, 1965-
Title Muslims and the making of America / Amir Hussain
Published Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2016]
Location Call number ITEM STATUS
 MAIN STACKS  E184.M88 H87 2016  Nearby on shelf  AVAILABLE
 MAIN STACKS  E184.M88 H87 2016 c.2  AVAILABLE
Description x, 132 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-131)
Summary "There has never been an America without Muslims"---so begins Amir Hussain, one of the most important scholars and teachers of Islam in America. Hussain, who is himself an American Muslim, contends tat Muslims played an essential role in the creation and cultivation of the United States. In Muslims and the Making of America, Hussain directly address the stereotypes of Muslims following 9/11 and terrorism. Far from undermining America, Islam and Americaqn Muslims have been, and continue to be, important threads in the fabric of American Life. Hussain chronicles the history of Islam in American to underscore the valuable cultural influence of Muslims on American Life. He then rivets attention on music, sports, and culture as key areas in which Muslims have shaped and transformed American Identity. American, Hussain concludes, would not exist as it does today without the essential contributions made by its Muslim citizens
Subject Muslims -- United States
Academic Subj. History (United States)
ISBN 1481306227
9781481306225
Table of Contents
 Acknowledgmentsix
 Introduction1
 American Ideal and Islam 
1.Islam in America13
 Short History 
2.Blues for Allah39
 Music 
3.Greatest61
 Sports 
4.Muslims on the American Landscape81
 Culture 
 Conclusion105
 Poetry of Ordinary American Muslim Lives 
 Bibliographic Note127



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