Kambiz GhaneaBassiri is Associate Professor of Religion and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Competing Visions of Islam in the United States: A Study of Los Angeles and has served on the editorial board of The Encyclopedia of Islam in the United States and the Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History.
Introduction; 1. Islam in the 'New World': the historical setting; 2.
Islamic beliefs and practice in colonial and antebellum America; 3.
Conflating race, religion and progress: social change, national identity,
and Islam in the post-Civil War era; 4. Race, ethnicity, religion and
citizenship: Muslim immigration at the turn of the twentieth century; 5.
Rooting Islam in America: community and institution building in the
interwar period; 6. Islam and American civil religion in the aftermath of
World War II; 7. A new religious America and post-colonial Muslim world:
American Muslim institution building and activism, 1960s-80s; 8. Between
experience and politics: American Muslims and the 'new world order',
1989-2008; Epilogue.
