The Muslims of America / edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad. [print]

Papers presented at a conference held on the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts, April 1989.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : The Muslims of America Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad Muslim organizations in the United States Gutbi Mahdi Ahmed Estimate of Muslims living in America Carol L. Stone Perspectives of the American churches on Islam and the Muslim community in North America Byron L. Haines The Muslim as the "other" : representation and self-image of the Muslims in America Abubaker al-Shingiety Ismail R. al-Faruqi : Muslim scholar-activist John L. Esposito Seyyed Hossein Nasr : defender of the sacred and Islamic traditionalism Jane I. Smith The legacy of Fazlur Rahman Frederick M. Denny Political activity of Muslims in America Steven A. Johnson Dawah in the West Larry A. Poston Muslims in prison : claims to constitutional protection of religious liberty Kathleen Moore Islamic education in the United States and Canada : conception and practice of the Islamic belief system Nimat Hafez Barazangi African-American Muslim women Beverly Thomas McCloud Two-way acculturation : Muslim women in America between individual choice (liminality) and community affiliation (communitas) Marcia K. Hermansen Islamic issues for Muslims in the United States John O. Voll American foreign policy in the Middle East and its impact on the identity of Arab Muslims in the United States Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad Convergence and divergence in an emergent community : a study of challenges facing U.S. Muslims Sulayman S. Nyang.

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