Muslims Of The Heartland
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Author | : Edward E. Curtis IV |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2023-11-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1479827223 |
Uncovers the surprising history of Muslim life in the early American Midwest The American Midwest is often thought of as uniformly white, and shaped exclusively by Christian values. However, this view of the region as an unvarying landscape fails to consider a significant community at its very heart. Muslims of the Heartland uncovers the long history of Muslims in a part of the country where many readers would not expect to find them. Edward E. Curtis IV, a descendant of Syrian Midwesterners, vividly portrays the intrepid men and women who busted sod on the short-grass prairies of the Dakotas, peddled needles and lace on the streets of Cedar Rapids, and worked in the railroad car factories of Michigan City. This intimate portrait follows the stories of individuals such as farmer Mary Juma, pacifist Kassem Rameden, poet Aliya Hassen, and bookmaker Kamel Osman from the early 1900s through World War I, the Roaring 20s, the Great Depression, and World War II. Its story-driven approach places Syrian Americans at the center of key American institutions like the assembly line, the family farm, the dance hall, and the public school, showing how the first two generations of Midwestern Syrians created a life that was Arab, Muslim, and American, all at the same time. Muslims of the Heartland recreates what the Syrian Muslim Midwest looked, sounded, felt, and smelled likeāfrom the allspice-seasoned lamb and rice shared in mosque basements to the sound of the trains on the Rock Island Line rolling past the dry goods store. It recovers a multicultural history of the American Midwest that cannot be ignored.
Author | : Imam Omar Hazim |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2011-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781456857974 |
"The purpose of this book is to inform and educate the general public of how Islam is taught in a mosque in the heartland of America. It includes the Friday khutbah (sermons) by Imam Omar Hazim and several other Imams (Spiritual Leaders). The hope is to help to clarify some of the misconceptions and distortions about the religion of Islam. In addition to the sermons, there will be articles from other publications, excerpts of sermons and photos. Included also is information about the diversity among the Muslim population in the Heartland of America. This book is very timely, as Islam has been reported as being the fasting growing religion in the World. For anyone who ever thought about or wondered what is taught in the Friday services at a Mosque, this book is a must read for them."
Author | : Marvin W. Heyboer |
Publisher | : Dorrance Publishing |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1434901882 |
Author | : Dominic Rubin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1787380882 |
Moscow has the largest Muslim population of any city in Europe. In 2015, some 2 million Muslim Muscovites celebrated the opening of the continent's biggest mosque. One quarter of the Soviet population was ethnically Muslim, and today their grandchildren, living in the lands between Bukhara, Kazan and the Caucasus, once again have access to their historical traditions. But they also suffer the effects of civil war, mass migration and political instability. At the highest levels, Islam has been swept up into Russia's broader search for identity, as the old question of eastern versus western takes on new force. Dominic Rubin has spent the last three years interviewing Muslims across Russia, from Sufi shaykhs in Dagestan, new Muslim artists on the Volga and professionals in Kyrgyzstan to guest-workers commuting between Russia and Uzbekistan and Kremlin-sponsored muftis hammering out a new Russian Muslim ideology in Moscow. He discovers their family histories, their faith journeys and their hopes and fears, caught between roles as traditionalist allies in the new Eurasian Russia and as potential traitors in Moscow's war on terror. This story of Islam adapting in a paradoxical landscape, against all odds, brings alive the human reality behind the headlines.
Author | : H. T. Norris |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Balkan Peninsula |
ISBN | : 9780872499775 |
From the earliest times, also, many Balkan Muslim soldiers and bureaucrats, as well as scholars and poets, made an impact on the wider Islamic world, the most prominent being Mohammed Ali, the founder of modern Egypt.
Author | : Edward E. Curtis IV |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2017-12-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1479882674 |
"Muslims have always been part of the United States, but very little is known about how Muslim Americans practice their religion. How do they pray? What's it like to go on pilgrimage to Mecca? What rituals accompany the birth of a child, a wedding, or the death of a loved one? What holidays do Muslims celebrate and what charities do they support? How do they learn about the Qur'an? [This book] introduces readers to the way Islam is lived in the United States, offering ... portraits of Muslim American life passages, ethical actions, religious holidays, prayer, pilgrimage, and other religious activities"--Back cover.
Author | : Gagan Sood |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2016-03-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107121272 |
Gagan D. S. Sood recaptures a vanished and forgotten world that spanned India and the Islamic heartlands in the eighteenth century.
Author | : Edward E. Curtis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2022-06-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781953368270 |
An accessible, intimate look at the oft-neglected history of Arab Americans in Greater Indianapolis who have made a remarkable impact on the region since the late 1800s. From establishing local businesses to working in the fields of health care and education, Arab Americans have made indelible contributions to the cultural vitality, economic growth, and social fabric of central Indiana. Arab Indianapolis features the stories of Arab Americans--some famous, some not--who have shaped the Capital City's past and will continue to define its future. It details a history hidden in plain sight, one sometimes buried beneath Indianapolis's most iconic landmarks such as Lucas Oil Stadium, Monument Circle, the Indiana War Memorials, the Governor's Residence, and Riverside Park. Highlights include: Helen Corey, the first Arab American to hold statewide elected office and the author of one of the most famous books on Syrian cuisine Jeff George, a Syrian American from the region who went on to play quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts The Syrian Christian community and the building of St. George Orthodox Church Indianapolis's connection to St. Jude Children's Hospital Governor Mitch Daniels, Indiana governor and grandson to Syrian immigrants Through short essays, over eighty beautiful photographs, interviews, and even a few recipes, this collection embraces the full humanity of Arab Americans in the Midwest. It will give you a deeper sense of the myriad lives of Arab-descended Hoosiers who call Indianapolis home. Arab Indianapolis is an indispensable resource for anyone looking to know the full story of how Arab Americans continue to shape one of the Midwest's most iconic cities.
Author | : Ayad Akhtar |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2012-01-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316192821 |
From the author of Homeland Elegies and Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced, a stirring and explosive novel about an American Muslim family in Wisconsin struggling with faith and belonging in the pre-9/11 world. Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arrives, and everything changes. American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of religion and modern life.
Author | : Adam LeBor |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2001-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312300012 |
In a series of essays both prescriptive and inspirational, Brian McNaught, the author of "On Being Gay" and one of the most prominent writers on the issue of sexuality, leads readers through the basic issues that gay men and lesbians will have to confront as they try to find a place for themselves in an often hostile world.