American and Muslim Worlds before 1900 challenges the prevailing assumption that when we talk about "American and Muslim worlds", we are talking about two conflicting entities that came into contact with each other in the 20th century. Instead, this book shows there is a long and deep seam of history between the two which provides an important context for contemporary events -- and is also important in its own right. Some of the earliest American Muslims were the African slaves working in the plantations of the Carolinas and Latin America. Thomas Jefferson, a slaveholder himself, was frequently called an "infidel" and suspected of hidden Muslim sympathies by his opponents. Whether it was the sale of American commodities in Central Asia, Ottoman consuls in Washington, orientalist themes in American fiction, the uprisings of enslaved Muslims in Brazil, or the travels of American missionaries in the Middle East, there was no shortage of opportunities for Muslims and inhabitants of the Americas to meet, interact and shape one another from an early period.
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List of Images List of contributors Introduction Part One: Islam and the Making of the Early American Republic 1. Benjamin Franklin, Islam and the Abolition of Slavery (Denise Spellberg University of Texas at Austin, USA) 2. The Greek War of Independence and the Ideological Manifestations of the Clash of Civilizations Theory in the United States, 1821-1830, Karine Walther (Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Qatar) Part II: The Muslim Experience in the Americas 3. Nicholas Said’s America: Islam, the Civil War, and the Emergence of African American Narrative, Ira Dworkin (Texas A&M University, USA) 4. Transcending Transcendentalism: An Islam Surface Reading of African Muslim Slave Narratives in Antebellum America, Zeinab McHeimech (Western University, Canada) 5. Crossing Oceans, Transgressing Boundaries: Incorporating Muslims and Moriscos into Histories of Colonial Spanish America, Karoline Cook (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) Part III: Muslim Worlds in the American Imaginary 6. ‘An Unwelcome Present’: Simulation and Simulacra in the Unlikely Friendship of General Lew Wallace and Sultan Abdülhamit II, Bill Hunt (Barton College, USA) 7. The Lost Tribes of the Afghans: Religious Mobility and Entanglement in Narratives of Afghan Origins, William E B Sherman (UNC Charlotte, USA) 8. Imagining Empire: Islamic India in Nineteenth-Century US Print Culture, Susan Ryan (University of Louisville, USA) Part IV: Islam and American Empire: The Case of the Philippines 9. Subjugating the Sultan of Sulu: American Imperial Negotiations in the Muslim Philippines, Timothy Marr (University of North Carolina, USA) 10. Native Americans, the Ottoman Empire, and Global Narratives of Islam in the US Colonial Philippines, 1900-1914, Joshua Gedacht (Rowan University, USA) 11. An Ottoman Notable in America in 1915-1916: Sayyid Wajih al-Kilani of Nazareth, William G Clarence-Smith (SOAS, University of London, UK) Epilogue: The Global History of American and Muslim Worlds, Heather J Sharkey (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Bibliography Index
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Fresh and topical. This collection on various aspects of the US-Islam relationship goes back to the beginning, and looks at the phenomenon from very different and yet ultimately complementary angles.
Examines the relationship between Islam and the US from the very beginning, drawing on several disciplines and rethinking global history methodologies.
Reminds readers of the importance of interactions between the US and Muslim cultures throughout history
Islam of the Global West is a pioneering series that examines Islamic beliefs, practices, discourses, communities, and institutions that have emerged from ‘the Global West.’ The geographical and intellectual framing of the Global West reflects both the role played by the interactions between people from diverse religions and cultures in the development of Western ideals and institutions in the modern era, and the globalization of these very ideals and institutions. In creating an intellectual space where works of scholarship on European and North American Muslims enter into conversation with one another, the series promotes the publication of theoretically informed and empirically grounded research in these areas. By bringing the rapidly growing research on Muslims in European and North American societies, ranging from the United States and France to Portugal and Albania, into conversation with the conceptual framing of the Global West, this ambitious series aims to reimagine the modern world and develop new analytical categories and historical narratives that highlight the complex relationships and rivalries that have shaped the multicultural, poly-religious character of Europe and North America, as evidenced, by way of example, in such economically and culturally dynamic urban centres as Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Madrid, Toronto, Sarajevo, London, Berlin, and Amsterdam where there is a significant Muslim presence. Editorial Board Leila Ahmed, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School, USA Schirin Amir-Moazami, Professor, Institute of Islamic Studies, Freie University Berlin, Germany John Bowen, Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Xavier Bougarel, Researcher, Centre nationale de la recherche scientifieque (CNRS), France Ian Coller, Department of History, University of California, Irvine, USA Edward E. Curtis IV, Millennium Chair of the Liberal Arts and Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA Mercedes García-Arenal, Research Professor, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales CSIC, Madrid, Spain Sophie Gilliat-Ray, Professor in Religious and Theological Studies, Director of the Centre for the Study of Islam in the United Kingdom, Cardiff University, Wales, UK Riva Kastoryano, Senior Research Fellow, Centre de Recherches Internationales, SciencesPo, France Aisha Khan, Associate Professor of Anthropology, New York University, USA Andrew March, Associate Professor of Political Science, USA Sean McLoughlin, Professor of the Anthropology of Islam, University of Leeds, UK Jonas Otterbeck, Professor of Islamic Studies, Aga Khan University, UK Mark Sedgwick, Professor, School of Culture and Society—Arabic and Islamic Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350277861
Publisert
2021-08-26
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
340 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240

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John Ghazvinian is Associate Director of the Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of Children of the Revolution: Iran and America since 1600 (2018). Arthur Mitchell Fraas is Senior Curator of Special Collections at the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, USA.