An analysis of the varying branches of Islam addresses political, cultural, and religious issues while sharing historical information about how the faith and some of its more controversial aspects evolved.
Different from theoretical treatments of Islam, this book gives readers practical and useful knowledge that can help them understand what it means to be Muslim.
From the stories that she gathers, Chan-Malik demonstrates the diversity and similarities of Black, Arab, South Asian, Latina, and multiracial Muslim women, and how American understandings of Islam have shifted against the evolution of U.S. ...
"Four american moslem ladies": early U.S. Muslim women in the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, 1920-1923 -- Insurgent domesticity: race and gender in representations of NOI Muslim women during the Cold War era -- Garments for one another: Islam ...
Long a charged topic in the West, Islam has become incendiary since 9/11, drawing heated reactions from both defenders and critics. The two sides rarely talk, and when they try...
A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam Sylvia Chan-Malik. replenished her sensibility and sense of worth, and deepened her commitment to orthodox [Sunni] Islam.”30 In Mecca, she physically retraced Hajar's steps between ...