scholarly journals Religious Values and Healthcare Accommodations: Voices from the American Muslim Community

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 708-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aasim I. Padela ◽  
Katie Gunter ◽  
Amal Killawi ◽  
Michele Heisler
Keyword(s):  
Religious Values ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
American Muslim

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muna Ali
Keyword(s):  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
American Muslim ◽  
Narrative Framework

This introductory chapter presents three vignettes that illustrate the four narratives that frame this book: the notion of an identity crisis among young Muslims, the purported conflict between a “pure or true” Islam and a “cultural” Islam, an alleged “Islamization of America,” and the imperative for creating an American Muslim community and culture. It also sketches the methodology employed in the book, detailing the centrality of a narrative framework from the inception of this project to its methods, the challenges encountered, the analysis, and ultimately to the production of this ethnographic narrative. This beginning chapter argues that narrative is a particularly useful way to examine identity.

scholarly journals Muslim Community of the Present-Day USA: Looking for SelfIdentity in the Multicultural Society

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-202
Author(s):  
M. H. Abdullaev
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Muslim Americans ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Black Muslims ◽  
Religious Worldview ◽  
Political Events ◽  
American Muslim ◽  
The Face ◽  
American Society

This article is devoted to the current socio- political processes experienced by the Muslim community in the United States of America. The author studies the process of harmonious integration by Muslim Americans into American society, the search for possible correlations between the religious and secular parts of society, and the requirements of Islam in the face of demo cratic values. The author pays special attention to the issues of self-determination for Islam adherents, including their political search, and attempts to gain a powerful voice in the most important political events. The article analyzes such aspects of American Muslims life as, interaction with representatives of other faiths, discrimination and Islamophobia, and the Islamic religious worldview of black Muslims. The author focuses on problematic discourse. Using methods of analysis, deduction, as well as methods of included observation, the author shows a modern picture of American Muslim life, and also makes important conclusions and predictions regarding their future in a rapidly changing multicultural American society.

The Role of Imams in American Muslim Health: Perspectives of Muslim Community Leaders in Southeast Michigan

2010 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aasim I. Padela ◽  
Amal Killawi ◽  
Michele Heisler ◽  
Sonya Demonner ◽  
Michael D. Fetters
Keyword(s):  
Community Leaders ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
American Muslim

scholarly journals DAKWAH DALAM KELUARGA

Al-Risalah ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-106
Author(s):  
Neneng Munajah
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Determining Factors ◽  
Family And Household ◽  
Family Demands ◽  
And Gender

Artikel ini membahas keluarga sebagai objek prioritas dalam berdakwah. Hal ini dikarenakan setiap manusia, pasti menyerap pemikiran, ajaran, dan nilai-nilai agama yang hidup dalam keluarganya; keluarga adalah miniatur dari komunitas dan masyarakat Islam. Keluarga juga merupakan kelanjutan logis dari kedua fungsi keluarga di atas, maka institusi keluarga dengan sendirinya menjadi salah satu faktor penentu bagi kekuatan dan kelemahan umat Islam secara keseluruhan. Adanya globalisasi telah memberikan dampak yang signifikan terhadap masyarakat, termasuk dakwah. Seperti: melonggarnya ikatan keluarga, melemahnya ikatan-ikatan moral akibat dari paham serba halal, permissivenisme (al-ibahiyyah) dan paham hedonisme yang menyertai modernisme, serta kegoncangan jiwa yang mengganggu ketenangan dan kedamaian keluarga dan rumah tangga. Sehingga dakwah dalam keluarga menuntut aktualisasi sistem dan nilai-nilai Islam dalam kehidupan keluarga. Di samping itu, dalam artikel ini penulis mencoba mengemukakan hal-hal pokok yang perlu diperhatikan dalam pembinaan keluarga Islam sebagai pilar utama dakwah. Pertama, soal pembentukan keluarga melalui pernikahan. Kedua, soal pendidikan dan penanaman nilai-nilai agama dalam keluarga. Ketiga, soal penegakan keadilan dan kesetaraan gender. Karena ketiga hal ini berpengaruh terhadap kekuatan dan ketahanan keluarga Islam. This article discusses the family as a priority object in da'wah. This is because every human being, must absorb the thoughts, teachings, and religious values ​​that live in his/her family; the family is a miniature of the Islamic community and society. The family is also a logical continuation of the two family functions above, so the family institution itself is one of the determining factors for the strengths and weaknesses of the Muslim community as a whole. The existence of globalization has had a significant impact on society, including propaganda. Such as: loosening of family ties, weakening of moral ties as a result of all-round understanding, permissivenism (al-ibahiyyah) and understanding of hedonism that accompany modernism, and the shock of the soul that disturbs the peace and peace of family and household. So preaching in the family demands the actualization of Islamic systems and values ​​in family life. In addition, in this article the author tries to put forward the main things that need to be considered in fostering Islamic families as the main pillars of da'wah. First, a matter of forming a family through marriage. Second, the education and the inculcation of religious values ​​in the family. Third, the matter of upholding justice and gender equality. Because these three things affect the strength and resilience of Islamic families.

Mosques in the United States

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ihsan Bagby
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nation Of Islam ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Community Centers ◽  
American Muslim ◽  
The 1960S

In the Muslim world, mosques function as places of worship rather than “congregations” or community centers. Muslims pray in any mosque that is convenient, since they are not considered members of a particular mosque but of the ummah (global community of Muslims). In America, however, Muslims attached to specific mosques have always followed congregational patterns. They transform mosques into community centers aimed at serving the needs of Muslims and use them as the primary vehicle for the collective expression of Islam in the American Muslim community. This chapter provides a historical overview of mosques in America. It also looks at the conversion of African Americans into mainstream Islam starting in the 1960s, the transformation of the Nation of Islam into a mainstream Muslim group, and the growth of mosques in America. In addition, it describes mosque participants, mosque activities, mosque structures, and mosque finances as well as the American mosque’s embrace of civic engagement and the role of women in the American mosque. Finally, the chapter examines the mosque leaders’ approach to Islam.

scholarly journals Woman and the Masjid between Two Extremes

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-141
Author(s):  
Louay Safi
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Programs ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
American Muslim

The masjid, better known in North America as the Islamic center, is the centerof spiritual, social, educational, and, most recently, political activities ofthe American Muslim community. The masjid is also the place whereMuslims of diverse cultural and ideological backgrounds meet and interact.The diversity of interpretations of Islamic sources and practices has createdtensions, particularly in Islamic centers where the tendency is to imposestrict interpretations about the appropriate place and role of Muslim womenin the masjid and the community.An increasing number of young Muslim women complain of restrictivearrangements and practices, impeding their ability to fully participate in educationaland social programs. Many masjids today restrict the main prayerhall to men and assign women to secluded quarters. Women are asking outloud: “Is this the place Islam assigns for us, or is it the imposition of culturaltraditions?” Some have even gone to the other extreme of rejecting all traditionsand discarding all limits ...

scholarly journals Theology, International Law, and Torture

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-144
Author(s):  
Mohamed Elsanousi
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Religious Commitment ◽  
Community Outreach ◽  
Military Officers ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
American Muslim ◽  
American Society ◽  
Princeton Theological Seminary ◽  
Islamic Society

In the post-9/11 environment, the American Muslim community has finallyrealized that it can no longer keep the rest of American society at arm’s lengthwhile seeking to establish its own infrastructure and ensuring its continuity asa distinct community. One example of this community’s increased participationin American civil society is its new-found interest in interfaith dialogue.With such reasoning in mind, the Muslim community has partnered with variousfaith communities to create the National Religious Campaign againstTorture (NRCAT), which was launched during the “Theology, InternationalLaw, and Torture: A Conference on Human Rights and Religious Commitment”conference sponsored by Princeton Theological Seminary, 13-15 January2006, in Princeton, New Jersey.Religious leaders from across the nation, as well as Mohamed Elsanousi(director, Communication and Community Outreach, Islamic Society ofNorth America [ISNA]) Mohammed Shafiq (executive director, Center forInterfaith Studies and Dialogue, Nazareth College, and imam, IslamicCenter of Rochester); and Azhar Azeez (member, ISNA Executive Council and director, Islamic Association of Carrollton) as representatives of ISNA,worked together at this conference to build a powerful, spiritually basedcoalition. Over 160 eminent religious and academic figures, authors, journalists,retired government and military officers, human rights activists, andlawyers spoke ...

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