The Columbia sourcebook of Muslims in the United States

Introduction to an American Muslim panorama

Part 1: Whispers And Echoes: American Muslims Before World War I

1: Autobiography of Omar ibn Sayyid (1831) / Omar ibn Sayyid

2: Islam in America (1893) / Mohammed Alexander Russell Webb

3: Islam in the Western Soudan" (1902) / Edward Wilmot Blyden

4: Ancient Arabic order of the nobles of the mystic shrine (1903, revised 1916) / George L Root

5: WPA interviews with Mary Juma and Mike Abdallah (1939)

Part 2: Contact And Divergence: Immigrant And African American Muslims From World War I To 1965

1: America: 1910-1912" (c 1925) / Pir Inayat Khan

2: I am a Moslem" (1921), "true salvation of the 'American Negroes': the real solution of the Negro question" (1923), "Crescent or cross: a Negro may aspire to any position under Islam without discrimination" (1923), and "Living Flora-and dead" (1924) / Moslem sunrise

3: Holy Koran of the Moorish Science Temple (1927) / Noble Drew Ali

4: Al-Islam: the religion of humanity (1950) / Shaikh Daoud Ahmed Faisal

5: Our prophet, Muhammad" (1959) / Imam Vehby Isma'il

6: Arab Moslems in the United States (1966) / Abdo Elkholy

7: God, ain't you for everybody?" from down these mean streets (1967) / Piri Thomas

8: What the Muslims want" and "what the Muslims believe," from message to the blackman in America (1965) / Elijah Muhammad

9: Malcolm X, interview with Al-Muslimoon (1965)

Part 3: American Islam After 1965: Racial, Ethnic, And Religious Diversities

1: Inner Qur'an," from Islam and World Peace (1987) / Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen

2: Historic Atlanta address" (1978) / W D Mohammed

3: Nation of Gods and earths, "what we teach," "allah," and "supreme mathematics" (1992)

Prologue to spiritual discourse: learning with an Islamic master (1993) / Frances Trix

5: Million man march address (1995) / Minister Louis Farrakhan

6: Struggling to surrender: some impressions of an American convert to Islam (1995) / Jeffrey Lang

7: Finding the straight path: a conversation with Mohsen and Lila Amen about faith, life, and family in Dearborn," in Arab Detroit: from margin to mainstream (2000) / Sally Howell

8: Our stories: a leap of faith," in Latina Magazine (2004) / Damarys Ocana

9: Matrimonials (2005) / Islamic Horizons

10: Standing alone in Mecca: an American woman's struggle for the soul of Islam (2005) / Asra Q Nomani

Part 4: Women, Gender, And Sexuality In American Islam

1: From Abu Dhabi to America, in a border passage: from Cairo to America-a woman's journey (2000) / Leila Ahmed

2: Daughters of another path: experiences of American women choosing Islam (1996) / Carol L Anway

3: Interview in American Jihad: Islam after Malcolm X (1993) / Tarajee Abdur-Rahim

4: American Muslims: the new generation (2000) / Asma Gull Hasan

5: Introduction to Muslim women's rights," in windows of faith: Muslim women scholar-activists in North America (2002) / Azizah al-Hibri

6: Qur'an and woman: rereading the sacred text from a woman's perspective (1999) / Amina Wadud

7: On the edge of belonging, in living Islam outloud: American Muslim women speak (2005) / Khalida Saed

8: Examination of the issue of female prayer leadership (2005) / Imam Zaid Shakir

9: Islamic Jurisprudence, 'Civil' Disobedience, and Woman-Led Prayer (2005) / Laury Silvers

10: Can a woman be an Imam? debating form and function in Muslim women's leadership (2005) / Ingrid Mattson

Part 5: American Muslim Politics And Civic Engagement After 9/11

1: Status of Muslim civil rights in the United States (2005) / Council of American-Islamic relations

2: American Muslim charities: easy targets in the war on terror," in Pace Law Review (2005) / Laila Al-Marayati

3: United States of America v. Earnest James Ujaama (2002)

4: Fatwa against terrorism (2005) / Fiqh council of North America

5: Being Muslim, being American after 9/11," in taking back Islam: American Muslims reclaim their faith (2002) / Omid Safi

6: Yaphett El-Amin for [Missouri] Senate District 4 (2006)

7: Islam and the challenge of democracy (2003) / Khaled Abou El Fadl

8: Islamic movement in America-why?" in Muslims and Islamization in North America: problems and prospects (1999) / Shamim A Siddiqui

9: New guide to Muslim interfaith dialogue (2006) / American Islamic congress

10: Challenges of resettlement and adaptation of Muslim refugees," in Muslim refugees in the United States: a guide for service providers (2003) / Patricia S Maloof and Fariyal Ross-Sherriff

Part 6: American Muslim Spirituality And Religious Life

1: Hajj in a Wheelchair, Azizah Magazine (2002) / Betty Hasan Amin

2: Who Is God? in Qur'an for Children (1995) / Abdul Rauf

3: Women Called To The Path of Rumi: the way of the whirling dervish (2001) / Shakina Reinhertz

4: Daily prayer (Du'a) of Shi'a Isma'ili Muslims" (2001) / Tazim R Kassam

5: Question of faith for Muslim inmates (1999) / Aminah McCloud and Frederick Thaufeer al-Deen

6: Online advice about Muslim youth (2004 and 2005) / Suhail Mulla

7: Islamic medical ethics: the IMANA perspective (2005) / Islamic medical association of North America (IMANA)

8: Introduction to LARIBA financing (1998) / Yahia Abdul-Rahman and Abdullah S Tug

9: Culture of terrorism," from Insomnia (2004) / Capital D

10: Introduction to purification of the heart (2004) / Hamza Yusuf

Acknowledgments

Glossary of Islamic terms

Further reading

Index.