{"product_id":"american-and-muslim-worlds-before-1900-9781350109513","title":"American and Muslim Worlds before 1900","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican and Muslim Worlds before 1900\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the prevailing assumption that when we talk about American and Muslim worlds, we are talking about two conflicting entities that came into contact with each other in the 20th century. Instead, this book shows there is a long and deep seam of history between the two which provides an important context for contemporary events -- and is also important in its own right.  Some of the earliest American Muslims were the African slaves working in the plantations of the Carolinas and Latin America. Thomas Jefferson, a slaveholder himself, was frequently called an infidel and suspected of hidden Muslim sympathies by his opponents. Whether it was the sale of American commodities in Central Asia, Ottoman consuls in Washington, orientalist themes in American fiction, the uprisings of enslaved Muslims in Brazil, or the travels of American missionaries in the Middle East, there was no shortage of opportunities for Muslims and inhabitants of the\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFresh and topical. This collection on various aspects of the US-Islam relationship goes back to the beginning, and looks at the phenomenon from very different and yet ultimately complementary angles. * Mark Sedgwick, Aarhus University, Denmark *\u003cbr\u003eThis is an impressive book, and will become an essential reading for those teaching on the US relationship with the Muslim societies. * Cemil Aydin, Professor of History, UNC-Chapel Hill, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Images List of contributors Introduction \u003cb\u003ePart One: Islam and the Making of the Early American Republic\u003c\/b\u003e 1. \u003ci\u003eBenjamin Franklin, Islam and the Abolition of Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e (Denise Spellberg University of Texas at Austin, USA) 2. \u003ci\u003eThe Greek War of Independence and the Ideological Manifestations of\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ethe Clash of Civilizations Theory in the United States, 1821-1830\u003c\/i\u003e, Karine Walther (Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Qatar) \u003cb\u003ePart II: The Muslim Experience in the Americas\u003c\/b\u003e 3. \u003ci\u003eNicholas Said’s America: Islam, the Civil War, and the Emergence of African\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAmerican Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e, Ira Dworkin (Texas A\u0026amp;M University, USA) 4. \u003ci\u003eTranscending Transcendentalism: An Islam Surface Reading of \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAfrican Muslim Slave Narratives in Antebellum America\u003c\/i\u003e, Zeinab McHeimech (Western University, Canada) 5. \u003ci\u003eCrossing Oceans, Transgressing Boundaries: Incorporating Muslims and\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMoriscos into Histories of Colonial Spanish America\u003c\/i\u003e, Karoline Cook (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) \u003cb\u003ePart III: Muslim Worlds in the American Imaginary\u003c\/b\u003e 6. \u003ci\u003e‘An Unwelcome Present’: Simulation and Simulacra in the Unlikely\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFriendship of General Lew Wallace and Sultan Abd\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eü\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003elhamit II,\u003c\/i\u003e Bill Hunt (Barton College, USA) 7. \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Tribes of the Afghans: Religious Mobility and\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eEntanglement in Narratives of Afghan Origins,\u003c\/i\u003e William E B Sherman (UNC Charlotte, USA) 8. \u003ci\u003eImagining Empire: Islamic India in Nineteenth-Century US Print Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, Susan Ryan (University of Louisville, USA) \u003cb\u003ePart IV: Islam and American Empire: The Case of the Philippines\u003c\/b\u003e 9. \u003ci\u003eSubjugating the Sultan of Sulu: American Imperial Negotiations in the\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMuslim Philippines\u003c\/i\u003e, Timothy Marr (University of North Carolina, USA) 10. \u003ci\u003eNative Americans, the Ottoman Empire, and Global Narratives of Islam\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ein the US Colonial Philippines, 1900-1914,\u003c\/i\u003e Joshua Gedacht (Rowan University, USA) 11. \u003ci\u003eAn Ottoman Notable in America in 1915-1916: Sayyid Wajih\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eal-Kilani of Nazareth,\u003c\/i\u003e William G Clarence-Smith (SOAS, University of London, UK) \u003ci\u003eEpilogue: The Global History of American and Muslim Worlds,\u003c\/i\u003e Heather J Sharkey (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187286335831,"sku":"9781350109513","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-and-muslim-worlds-before-1900-9781350109513","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}