Muslim minorities in the West : visible and invisible / edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad & Jane I. Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck, 1935-

Smith, Jane I.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslims--Europe.

Muslims.

Europe.

Europe--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Muslims--United States.

United States.

United States--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

xviii, 306 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, [2002]

Summary:

Noted scholars Haddad and Smith bring together outstanding essays on the distinct experiences of minority Muslim communities from Detroit, Michigan to Perth, Australia and the wide range of issues facing them. In their introduction, the authors trace the broad contours of the Muslim experience in Europe, America and other areas of European settlement and shed light on the common questions minority Muslims face of assimilation, discrimination, evangelism, and politics. This text provides a welcome introduction to these increasingly visible citizens of Western nations. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Contents:

Part I. The American Experience

Chapter 1. Spreading the Word: Communicating Islam in America / Abdul Hamid Lotfi 3

Chapter 2. The Politics of Transfiguration: Constitutive Aspects of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 / Kathleen Moore 25

Chapter 3. The American Muslim Paradox / Agha Saeed 39

Chapter 4. The Greatest Migration? / Robert M. Dannin 59

Chapter 5. Islamic Party in North America: A Quiet Storm of Political Activism / Khalid Fattah Griggs 77

Chapter 6. The Complexity of Belonging: Sunni Muslim Immigrants in Chicago / Garbi Schmidt 107

Chapter 7. Being Arab and Becoming Americanized: Forms of Mediated Assimilation in Metropolitan Detroit / Gary David, Kenneth K. Ayouby 125

Part II. The European Experience

Chapter 8. Invisible Muslims: The Sahelians in France / Sylviane A. Diouf 145

Chapter 9. The Northern Way: Muslim Communities in Norway / Saphinaz-Amal Naguib 161

Chapter 10. Turks in Germany: Muslim Identity "Between" States / James Helicke 175

Part III. The Experience in Areas of European Settlement

Chapter 11. Muslims in Australia: The Building of a Community / Anthony H. Johns, Abdullah Saeed 195

Chapter 12. Muslim Women as Citizens in Australia: Perth as a Case Study / Samina Yasmeen 217

Chapter 13. Muslims in New Zealand / William Shepard 233

Chapter 14. Muslims in South Africa: A Very Visible Minority / Tamara Sonn 255

Chapter 15. Muslims in the Caribbean: Ethnic Sojourners and Citizens / John O. Voll 265.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-288) and index.

ISBN:

0759102171

075910218X

OCLC:

47863237