American crescent : A Muslim cleric on the power of his faith, the struggle against prejudice, and the future of Islam and America / Hassan Qazwini. [Brad Crawford].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Qazwini, Hassan, 1964-

Contributor:

Crawford, Brad.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qazwini, Hassan, 1964-.

Qazwini, Hassan.

Muslims--United States--Biography.

Muslims.

Islam--United States.

Islam.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 282 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, 2007.

Summary:

"My family and I arrived in Los Angeles on December 6, 1992, on a British Airways flight from Dubai, eager to see how America would greet us. The customs official could have glanced at the previous pages in my passport and learned of my trips to Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Syria; he might also have noticed that I hadn't been to America before, but he applied a red stamp in the 'Entries' column and ushered me past with an unexpected greeting: 'Welcome home.' As I waited for my wife and children to catch up, the words of Imam Ali came to me, a plea for civility and pragmatism over nationalism: 'Your country does not belong to you more than any other country. The best country is the one that treats you well.'"

Contents:

Husayn vs. Hussein

Struggle in Iran

Sacred journey

The idea of America

Bridge building

The Muslim capital of the West

Paranoid America and 'Islamofascists'

Carrying the mission to the halls of power

Our American Bin Ladens

Lines in the sand

Return to the cradle

The Islamic frontier.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-282).

ISBN:

9781400064540

1400064546

OCLC:

85862515