scholarly journals How Has the U.S. Treated American Muslim Minorities?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Esposito ◽  
Keyword(s):  
American Muslim ◽  
Muslim Minorities ◽  
The U.S

Islamic Philanthropy as a “Discursive Tradition”

2016 ◽  
pp. 186-204
Author(s):  
Sabithulla Khan
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Liberal Arts College ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Institutional Constraints ◽  
American Muslims ◽  
Islam In America ◽  
Islamic Schools ◽  
American Muslim ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
The U.S

By examining philanthropy towards Zaytuna College, the first Muslim liberal arts college in the U.S. and ISNA, and contextualizing it in the discourses of giving among American Muslims, this paper seeks to offer a theoretical framework for contextualizing Islamic philanthropy during ‘crisis'. I argue that philanthropy in this context should be seen as a gradually evolving ‘discursive tradition,' and not an unchanging one. Given the discourse of Islam in America being one framed in the rubric of ‘crisis,' and the attempts by American Muslim organizations to garner philanthropic support using this framework; it is important to understand how certain crisis situations impacted discourses of philanthropy towards this sector. This paper attempts a Foucaldian analysis of how American Muslims negotiate this discursive tension in the realm of giving. I build on the work of various scholars and offer a framework that treats philanthropy towards Islamic schools, cultural and educational institutions as a ‘discursive tradition' to understand how the dynamics of philanthropy are changing in this sector. I propose that a discursive approach could also offer us new insights into how philanthropy is being transformed, under certain institutional constraints and relations of power.

Islamotopia

2017 ◽  
pp. 219-240
Author(s):  
Michael Muhammad Knight
Keyword(s):  
White Privilege ◽  
American Muslim ◽  
Racial History ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Islam ◽  
The U.S ◽  
The Ideal

This chapter explores the idea of American Islam, a unique expression of Islam articulated by a range of American Muslim thinkers. Special attention is given to the ways in which constructions of American Islam intersect with notions of U.S. exceptionalism to imagine the U.S. as a setting in which Muslims can recover and revive the “true” and “original” Islam. The claim that American Islam would thus be the most authentic and universal Islam, informed by the racial history of the U.S. and white privilege, has been employed to diverse ends by a variety of actors that includes conservative neo-traditionalists, progressive and feminist Muslims, and Muslim supporters of George W. Bush. This chapter investigates the development of these discourses to argue that notions of American Islam ultimately privilege white convert men as the ideal embodiments of universal Islam.

scholarly journals Blackamerican Muslim Scholars and Leaders in New York City

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 61-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Patrick Daniels
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
York City ◽  
The State ◽  
American Muslims ◽  
American Muslim ◽  
Secular Power ◽  
The U.S

Recent work has drawn attention to the state-led and media-driven discourse of "good" and "bad" Muslims.  It is a flexible discourse, with benchmarks and shifting appraisals, that aims to mold American Muslims into "good" secular Muslims.  Drawing on old Orientalist representations, this American Islamophobic framework strives to produce "good" Blackamerican Muslims through rendering them as invisible, voiceless, or under the control of allies of the U.S. secular power.  The three ethnographic vignettes—a masjid fundraiser, two chaplains, and a political collective—demonstrate that Blackamerican Muslims scholars and leaders are not only disrupting this discursive project, but also undermining negative portrayals of Muslims and Islam more broadly.  In addition, through their practice and discourse, these Blackamerican Muslim figures are formulating an emergent American Muslim religious identity.

Islamic Philanthropy as a “Discursive Tradition”

2020 ◽  
pp. 414-428
Author(s):  
Sabithulla Khan
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Liberal Arts College ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Institutional Constraints ◽  
American Muslims ◽  
Islam In America ◽  
Islamic Schools ◽  
American Muslim ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
The U.S

By examining philanthropy towards Zaytuna College, the first Muslim liberal arts college in the U.S. and ISNA, and contextualizing it in the discourses of giving among American Muslims, this paper seeks to offer a theoretical framework for contextualizing Islamic philanthropy during ‘crisis'. I argue that philanthropy in this context should be seen as a gradually evolving ‘discursive tradition,' and not an unchanging one. Given the discourse of Islam in America being one framed in the rubric of ‘crisis,' and the attempts by American Muslim organizations to garner philanthropic support using this framework; it is important to understand how certain crisis situations impacted discourses of philanthropy towards this sector. This paper attempts a Foucaldian analysis of how American Muslims negotiate this discursive tension in the realm of giving. I build on the work of various scholars and offer a framework that treats philanthropy towards Islamic schools, cultural and educational institutions as a ‘discursive tradition' to understand how the dynamics of philanthropy are changing in this sector. I propose that a discursive approach could also offer us new insights into how philanthropy is being transformed, under certain institutional constraints and relations of power.

“Liberal Arts are an Islamic Idea”: Subjectivity Formation at Islamic Universities in The West

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-47
Author(s):  
Kirstine Sinclair
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Liberal Arts College ◽  
Community Leadership ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
The West ◽  
Background Values ◽  
Muslim Minorities ◽  
Participatory Observation ◽  
The U.S

AbstractThe aim of this project is to discuss how Islamic universities in the West facilitate and condition the formation of modern Muslim subjectivities. The central question of the study is: How is the formation of modern forms of subjectivities tied together with the reinterpretation of Islamic traditions? The paper provides analysis of the curricula, and institution background, values and aims of two universities—Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California, the first Muslim liberal arts college in the U.S.; and Cambridge Muslim College, the first to offer a Diploma in Muslim community leadership in Britain. Alongside the textually founded analysis, interviews conducted with leadership, faculty and students, and participatory observation inform the discussion. Analysis demonstrates that both institutions see themselves as mediators between Islamic traditions and modern Muslims in the West, and as having a responsibility to engage in the development of both Muslim minorities and the wider societies within which they operate.

Blackamerican Muslim Scholars and Leaders in New York City

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 61-88
Author(s):  
Timothy Patrick Daniels
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
York City ◽  
The State ◽  
American Muslims ◽  
American Muslim ◽  
Secular Power ◽  
The U.S

Recent work has drawn attention to the state-led and media-driven discourse of "good" and "bad" Muslims.  It is a flexible discourse, with benchmarks and shifting appraisals, that aims to mold American Muslims into "good" secular Muslims.  Drawing on old Orientalist representations, this American Islamophobic framework strives to produce "good" Blackamerican Muslims through rendering them as invisible, voiceless, or under the control of allies of the U.S. secular power.  The three ethnographic vignettes—a masjid fundraiser, two chaplains, and a political collective—demonstrate that Blackamerican Muslims scholars and leaders are not only disrupting this discursive project, but also undermining negative portrayals of Muslims and Islam more broadly.  In addition, through their practice and discourse, these Blackamerican Muslim figures are formulating an emergent American Muslim religious identity.

Muslim American City

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alisa Perkins
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Public Space ◽  
American City ◽  
Muslim Americans ◽  
Muslim American ◽  
American Muslim ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Material Process ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Muslim Minorities

Muslim American City studies how Muslim Americans test the boundaries of American pluralism as a model for secular inclusion. This ethnographic work focuses on the perspectives of both Muslims and non-Muslims in Hamtramck, Michigan, a small city situated within the larger metro Detroit region that has one of the highest concentrations of Muslim residents of any US city. Once famous as a center of Polish American life, Hamtramck’s now has a population that is at least 40 percent Muslim. Drawing attention to Muslim American expressions of religious and cultural identity in civic life—particularly in response to discrimination and gender stereotyping—the book questions the popular assumption that the religiosity of Muslim minorities hinders their capacity for full citizenship in secular societies, a viewpoint that has long played into hackneyed arguments about the supposed incompatibility between Islam and democracy. The study approaches the incorporation of Yemeni, Bangladeshi, and African American Muslim groups in Hamtramck as a social, spatial, and material process that also involves well-established Polish Catholic, African American Christian, and other non-Muslim Hamtramck residents. Extending theory on group identity, boundary formation, gender, and space-making, the book examines how Hamtramck residents mutually reconfigure symbolic divides in public debates and everyday exchanges, including and excluding others based on moral identifications or distinctions across race, ethnicity, and religion. The various negotiations of public space examined in this text advance the book’s main argument: that Muslim and non-Muslim co-residents expand the boundaries of belonging together, by engaging in social and material exchanges across lines of difference.

Historical Introduction

1977 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 2-5
Author(s):  
R. D. Heidenreich
Keyword(s):  
Electron Emission ◽  
Secondary Electron ◽  
Secondary Electron Emission ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Secondary Emission ◽  
Wave Nature ◽  
Nobel Prize In Physics ◽  
Primary Electrons ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Mutual Agreement

This program has been organized by the EMSA to commensurate the 50th anniversary of the experimental verification of the wave nature of the electron. Davisson and Germer in the U.S. and Thomson and Reid in Britian accomplished this at about the same time. Their findings were published in Nature in 1927 by mutual agreement since their independent efforts had led to the same conclusion at about the same time. In 1937 Davisson and Thomson shared the Nobel Prize in physics for demonstrating the wave nature of the electron deduced in 1924 by Louis de Broglie.The Davisson experiments (1921-1927) were concerned with the angular distribution of secondary electron emission from nickel surfaces produced by 150 volt primary electrons. The motivation was the effect of secondary emission on the characteristics of vacuum tubes but significant deviations from the results expected for a corpuscular electron led to a diffraction interpretation suggested by Elasser in 1925.

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