Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Da?wah 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.