Encyclopedia of Islam in the United States

Encyclopedia of Islam in the United States /

Some scholars believe that the influence of Islam in the United States can be traced back to Thomas Jefferson. Today, Islam and American Muslim populations are growing in importance in this country, and demand for information about them is high, especially in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Thi...

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Other Authors: Cesari, Jocelyne
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Islam > United States > Encyclopedias.
Muslims > United States > Encyclopedias.
Table of Contents:
  • Vol. I. Encyclopedia : A-Z
  • Preface
  • Alphabetical list of entries
  • List of entries by topic
  • Note on transliteration
  • About the editor
  • Introduction
  • Chronology
  • Vol. 2. Primary documents
  • pt. 1. Religious life of Muslims 1. "PMU statement of principles" from the Progressive Muslim Union of North America
  • 2. "Mission statement" from IslamForToday.com / Hussein Abdulwaheed Amin
  • 3. "Our mission" from MuslimWakeup.com
  • 4. "The assembly of Muslim jurists in America : mission statement" from The Assembly of Muslim Jurists in America
  • 5. The assembly of Muslim jurists in America fatwa against the Danish media and government over the cartoon crisis" / Salah Al-Sawy from the Assembly of Muslim Jurists in America
  • 6. "Clash of the uncivilized : insights on the cartoon controversy" / Imam Zaid Shakir, from The Zaytuna Institute
  • 7. "Fiqh and the Fiqh Council of North America" / Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo, from The Fiqh Council of North America
  • 8. "Embryonic stem-cell research" / Taha Alalwani, from The Fiqh Council of North America
  • 9. "She wants advice for Muslims who live in the West" from Islam Questions and Answers
  • 10. "He works in a mixed environment and is worried about his fast" from Islam Questions and Answers
  • 11. "They allow mixing in the mosque because they want people to attend" from Islam Questions and Answers
  • 12. "He is studying in a mixed university ; how should he deal with female teachers and students?" from Islam Questions and Answers
  • 13. "What is the age which a woman should observe hijab from a boy?" from Islam Questions and Answers
  • 14. "Celebrating innovated festivals" from Islam Questions and Answers
  • 15. "is it permissible for her to listen to music whilst exercising?" from Islam Questions and Answers
  • 16. "Offering gifts to women on Christmas" from Islam Questions and Answers
  • 17. "Who or what is a salafi?" / Nuh Ha Mim Keller
  • 18. "The Muslim family in the USA : law in practice" / Asifa Quraishi, from Women's Rights & Islamic Family Law
  • 19. "Islamic family law in US courts" / Asifa Quraisi, from Women's Rights & Islamic Family Law
  • 20. "Fiqh of minorities" / Taha Jabir Alalwani, web summary by Omar Tarazi, from The Islamic Society of North America
  • 21. "'Fatwa' concerning the United States Supreme Court frieze" / Taha Jaber Alawani, from the Journal of Law and Religion
  • 22. "Sufism and Islam" / Nuh Ha Mim Keller
  • 23. "Basic commitments of Muslims" / Muzzamil H. Siddiqi, from The Islamic Society of North America
  • 24. "Islamic activism" / Muzzamil H. Siddiqi, from The Islamic Society of North America
  • 25. "Zakat and charity
  • our gratitude to Allah" / Muzzamil H. Siddiqi, from The Islamic Society of North America
  • 26. "BBC : thought of the day" / Hamza Yusuf, from The Zaytuna Institute
  • 27. "Islam & world peace : explanations of a Sufi" / M.R. Bawa Muhaiyadin, from Islam & World Peace : Explanations of a Sufi
  • 28. "From Chicago to Houston : clues for 'Renaissance' in Islamic thought ..." / Cengiz Çandar, from Fethullahgulen.org
  • 29. "The Tarbiyah Project : a holistic vision of Islamic education" / Dawud Tauhidi, from The Tarbiyah Project
  • 30. "Accomplishments" from IQRA' International Education Foundation.
  • 31. "Early childhood education program in an Islamic school" from IQRA' International Education Foundation
  • 32. "Prison and the struggle for dignity" / F. Thaufeer al-Deen, from Taking Back Islam : American Muslims Reclaim Their Faith
  • 33. "Islam and alcohol in America : Muslim scholars step forward" / Zakariya Wright, from Dar al Islam
  • 34. "Finding home : the consolidation of a Muslim American identity" / Hadia Mubarak, from Azizah Magazine
  • 35. :Living and dying in America : Janazah issues for the American Muslim" / Sumayya Allen, from Azizah Magazine
  • 36. "Becoming Muslim" / Nuh Ha Mim Keller
  • 37. "If it doesn't kill you first" / Murad Kalam, from Outside Magazine
  • 38. "Michael Wolfe, United States, 1990" / Michael Wolfe, from One Thousand Roads to Mecca : Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing about the Muslim Pilgrimage
  • 39. "Islam : a broad perspective on other faiths" / Shaykh Kabir Helminski, from Taking Back Islam : American Muslims Reclaim Their Faith
  • 40. "Mom raised me as a Zionist" / Mas'ood Cajee, from Taking Back Islam : American Muslims Reclaim Their Faith
  • 41. "How Muslims use Islamic paradigms to define America" / Ingrid Mattson, from Religion and Immigration : Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Experiences in the United States
  • 42. "Religious belief and practice" from the Pew Research Center
  • pt. 2. Terrorism and September 11, 2001
  • 43. "A top urgent statement concerning terrorism" from The Assembly of Muslim Jurists in America
  • 44. "US Muslim Religious Council issues Fatwa against terrorism" from The Fiqh Council of North America
  • 45. "Shaykh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi condemns attacks against civilians : 44 forbidden in Islam: from IslamOnline.net
  • 46. "Islamic scholars say U.S. Muslim soldiers must fight for country" / Caryle Murphy, from The Washington Post
  • 47. "Islamic extremism : a viable threat to U.S. National Security" / Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, from the Islamic Supreme Council of America
  • 48. "The woman : a parable" / Nuh Ha Mim Keller
  • 49. "America's tragedy" / Hamza Yusuf, from the Zaytuna Institute
  • 50. "Memo to Mr. Bin Laden : go to Hell!" / Muqtedar Khan, from Ijtihad.org
  • 51. "Reject call for Holy War, Florida Muslim leader says" / Anderea Elliot, from The Miami Herald
  • 52. "The case of the Taliban American" from CNN.com
  • 53 "Free Muslim coalition : mission statement" from The Free Muslim Coalition
  • 54. "Mission statement : Muslims against terrorism (M-A-T) : the first anti-terrorism NGO in the world for global peace and justice" from Muslims Against Terrorism
  • 55. "Recommendations" from The Muslim Public Affairs Council
  • 56. Statements form American government officials
  • 57. "State of the Union Address, 1980 : 'The Carter Doctrine'" / President Jimmy Carter
  • 58. "Foreign policy, terrorism, and concerns about extremism" from The Pew Research Center
  • pt. 3. Challenges of citizenship
  • 59. "American Muslims' 'special obligation'" / Ingrid Mattson, from Taking Back Islam : American Muslims Reclaim Their Faith
  • 60. "A memo to American Muslims" / Muqtedar Khan, from Ijtihad.org
  • 61. "American Muslims, human rights, and the challenge to September 11, 2001" / Imam Zaid Shakir, from The Zaytuna Institute
  • 62. "On the passing of Rosa Parks (1913-2005)" / Imam Zaid Shakir, from The Zaytuna Institute.
  • 63. "Education and the inner city" / Hamza Yusuf, from IMAN Central
  • 64. An international call for moratorium on corporal punishment, stoning, a nd the death penalty in the Islamic world" / Tariq Ramadan
  • 65. "Every act is political : Samina Ali, an email interview with Shauna Singh Baldwin" from Shauna Singh Baldwin
  • 66. "Mission statement" / Muhammad Ali Hasan, Seeme Gull Hasan, from Muslims for Bush
  • 67. "Muslim coalition offers qualified Kerry endorsement" / The American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections
  • Political Action Committee (AMT-PAC), from The Council on American-Islamic Relations
  • 68. "American Muslim poll 2004 : shifting political winds & fallout from 9/11, Afghanistan, and Iraq" / Zahid Bukhari, Sulayman Nyang, and John Zogby, from Project MAPS
  • 69. "Results of poll of American Muslims released" from Zogby International
  • 70. "Is Islam misunderstood in America? from Voice of America News
  • 71. "Political and social values" from The Pew Research Center
  • pt. 4. Gender and Islam
  • 72. "March 18, 2005 : a woman leads congregational prayer in New York" / Amina Wadud, from Inside the Gender Jihad : Women's Reform in Islam
  • 73. "A statement from the organizers of the March 18th woman-led Jum'ah prayer from Muslim WakeUp!
  • 74. "A statement from the Assembly of Muslim Jurists in America about the issue of women leading the Friday prayer and delivering the ceremony" from The Assembly of Muslim Jurists in America
  • 75. "A critique of the argument for woman-led Friday prayers" / Hina Azam, from Alt. Muslim.com
  • 76. "Muslim women can lead some prayers : scholars" / Adam Wild Aba, from IslamOnline.net
  • 77. "The patriarchal imaginary of father/s : divine ontology and the prophets: / Asma Barlas, from Believing Women in Islam : Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an
  • 78. "Gay Muslims face a growing challenge" / Robert F. Worth, from The New York Times
  • 79. "Gay, lesbian Muslims seek out 'marriages of convenience, ' / Ayesha Akram, from Religion News Service
  • pt. 5. Race and Islam
  • 80. "In London, Paris, and the West Indies" / Nicholas Said, from The Autobiography of Nicholas Said; a Native of Bornou, Eastern Soudan, Central Africa
  • 81. "Malcolm X, United States 1964" / Malcolm X, from Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing about the Muslim Pilgrimage
  • 82. "How Islam promotes healthy citizenship" / Imam W. Deen Mohammed, from The Muslim Journal
  • 83. "The Million Man March : past, present, and future" from The Final Call
  • 84. "Hijra from Harlem" / Khadijah Sharif-Drinkard, from Living Islam Out Loud : American Muslim Women Speak
  • 85. "You seem so intelligent. Why are you a Muslim?" / Halima Toure, from Taking Back Islam : American Muslims Reclaim Their Faith
  • pt. 6. Muslim artistic and cultural expression in America
  • 86. "Remembering love," "Finding home," and "Blessed divine woman" / Sham-e-Ali al-Jamil, from Living Islam Out Loud : American Muslim Women Speak
  • 87. "About the tour
  • Allah made me funny" from allahmademefunny.com
  • 88. "Sister Haero interview" / Michael Shapiro, from MuslimHipHop.com
  • 89. "Top 10 Muslim hip-hop lyrics : the five elements of hip-hop meet the five pillars of Islam" / Waris and Wajid Syed, from Warbux Records
  • 90. "I have no canons that roar : how the Bosnian War transformed my view of music in Islamic culture" / Yusuf Islam, adapted and updated from Taking Back Islam : American Muslims Reclaim Their Faith
  • 91. "Lipstick jihad : an interview with Azadeh Moarveni" from MotherJones.com
  • 92. "In America" / Suheir Hammad, from SuheirHammad.com
  • 93. "Man among us" from Maulood and "Ramadan angels" from Ramadan Sonnets / Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
  • 94. "For El Haji Rasul Taifa" / Marvin X, from Love and War : Poems by Marvin X
  • 95. "Ghazal
  • in ecstasy," "Ghazal
  • in this is a sign," and "Ghazal
  • o love" / Majid Mohiuddin, from An Audience of One
  • 96. "Welcome to the I.C.E. (The I.N.S. song)" / Dawud Wharnsby, from Enter Into Peace.

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