American Crescent
Author: Sayyid Hassan Qazwini
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Published: 2013-11-01
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ISBN-13: 9780991025015
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Author: Sayyid Hassan Qazwini
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Published: 2013-11-01
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ISBN-13: 9780991025015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael A. Gomez
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-03-21
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780521840958
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeginning with Latin America in the fifteenth century, this book, first published in 2005, is a social history of the experiences of African Muslims and their descendants throughout the Americas, including the Caribbean. The record under slavery is examined, as is the post-slavery period into the twentieth century. The experiences vary, arguably due to some extent to the Old World context. Muslim revolts in Brazil are also discussed, especially in 1835, by way of a nuanced analysis. The second part of the book looks at the emergence of Islam among the African-descended in the United States in the twentieth century, with successive chapters on Noble Drew Ali, Elijah Muhammad, and Malcolm X, with a view to explaining how orthodoxy arose from varied unorthodox roots.
Author: Paul L. Williams
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1616146362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliams examines the phenomenal rise of Islam in the United States and discusses its implications. Informative and at times controversial, this text clearly shows that Islam will be a force to reckon with for some time in America.
Author: Sohail Daulatzai
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0816675864
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLinking discontent and unrest in Harlem and Los Angeles to anticolonial revolution in Algeria, Egypt, and elsewhere, Black leaders in the United States have frequently looked to the anti-imperialist movements and antiracist rhetoric of the Muslim Third World for inspiration. Daulatzai maps the shared history between Black Muslims, Black radicals, and the Muslim Third World, showing how Black artists and activists imagined themselves not as national minorities but as part of a global majority, connected to larger communities of resistance. From publisher description.
Author: Robert J. Allison
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014-12-10
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 022630857X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the beginning of the colonial period to the recent conflicts in the Middle East, encounters with the Muslim world have helped Americans define national identity and purpose. Focusing on America's encounter with the Barbary states of North Africa from 1776 to 1815, Robert Allison traces the perceptions and mis-perceptions of Islam in the American mind as the new nation constructed its ideology and system of government. "A powerful ending that explains how the experience with the Barbary states compelled many Americans to look inward . . . with increasing doubts about the institution of slavery." —David W. Lesch, Middle East Journal "Allison's incisive and informative account of the fledgling republic's encounter with the Muslim world is a revelation with a special pertinence to today's international scene." —Richard W. Bulliet, Journal of Interdisciplinary History "This book should be widely read. . . . Allison's study provides a context for understanding more recent developments, such as America's tendency to demonize figures like Iran's Khumaini, Libya's Qaddafi, and Iraq's Saddam." —Richard M. Eaton, Eighteenth Century Studies
Author: Joan Garvey
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2012-11-05
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781455617425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA brief history for New Orleans' greatest admirers. This concise history of the Crescent City contains chapters covering the Mississippi River, the city's founding, European rule, and more, updated with expanded jazz and African American sections. It is a must for every library and home, and for those who love New Orleans and its rich history.
Author: S. Andrew Swann
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Published: 2004-05-04
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1101166991
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollege student Nate Black is a top-notch computer hacker. But he's long since stopped the kind of hacking that could put him behind bars. Under the guise of his user i.d., Azrael, he has never been discovered. That is, until Nate gets an anonymous email, after which nothing will ever be the same. He's abducted to an alien world, where magic is the rule, the gods are all too real, and a twist of fate makes him the most valuable pawn in a terrifying game of power.
Author: Keith C. Ferdinand
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 2009-02-15
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13:
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Author: Maria del Mar Logroño Narbona
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2015-09-15
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1477302298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuslims have been shaping the Americas and the Caribbean for more than five hundred years, yet this interplay is frequently overlooked or misconstrued. Brimming with revelations that synthesize area and ethnic studies, Crescent over Another Horizon presents a portrait of Islam’s unity as it evolved through plural formulations of identity, power, and belonging. Offering a Latino American perspective on a wider Islamic world, the editors overturn the conventional perception of Muslim communities in the New World, arguing that their characterization as “minorities” obscures the interplay of ethnicity and religion that continues to foster transnational ties. Bringing together studies of Iberian colonists, enslaved Africans, indentured South Asians, migrant Arabs, and Latino and Latin American converts, the volume captures the power-laden processes at work in religious conversion or resistance. Throughout each analysis—spanning times of inquisition, conquest, repressive nationalism, and anti-terror security protocols—the authors offer innovative frameworks to probe the ways in which racialized Islam has facilitated the building of new national identities while fostering a double-edged marginalization. The subjects of the essays transition from imperialism (with studies of morisco converts to Christianity, West African slave uprisings, and Muslim and Hindu South Asian indentured laborers in Dutch Suriname) to the contemporary Muslim presence in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Trinidad, completed by a timely examination of the United States, including Muslim communities in “Hispanicized” South Florida and the agency of Latina conversion. The result is a fresh perspective that opens new horizons for a vibrant range of fields.