American and Muslim Worlds before 1900 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…mehr
American and Muslim Worlds before 1900 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 Americas to meet, interact and shape one another from an early period.
John Ghazvinian is Associate Director of the Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of Children of the Revolution: Iran and America since 1600 (2018). Arthur Mitchell Fraas is Senior Curator of Special Collections at the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, USA.
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List of Images List of contributors Introduction Part One: Islam and the Making of the Early American Republic 1. Benjamin Franklin Islam and the Abolition of Slavery (Denise Spellberg University of Texas at Austin USA) 2. The Greek War of Independence and the Ideological Manifestations of the Clash of Civilizations Theory in the United States 1821-1830 Karine Walther (Georgetown University School of Foreign Service Qatar) Part II: The Muslim Experience in the Americas 3. Nicholas Said's America: Islam the Civil War and the Emergence of African American Narrative Ira Dworkin (Texas A&M University USA) 4. Transcending Transcendentalism: An Islam Surface Reading of African Muslim Slave Narratives in Antebellum America Zeinab McHeimech (Western University Canada) 5. Crossing Oceans Transgressing Boundaries: Incorporating Muslims and Moriscos into Histories of Colonial Spanish America Karoline Cook (Royal Holloway University of London UK) Part III: Muslim Worlds in the American Imaginary 6. 'An Unwelcome Present': Simulation and Simulacra in the Unlikely Friendship of General Lew Wallace and Sultan Abdülhamit II Bill Hunt (Barton College USA) 7. The Lost Tribes of the Afghans: Religious Mobility and Entanglement in Narratives of Afghan Origins William E B Sherman (UNC Charlotte USA) 8. Imagining Empire: Islamic India in Nineteenth-Century US Print Culture Susan Ryan (University of Louisville USA) Part IV: Islam and American Empire: The Case of the Philippines 9. Subjugating the Sultan of Sulu: American Imperial Negotiations in the Muslim Philippines Timothy Marr (University of North Carolina USA) 10. Native Americans the Ottoman Empire and Global Narratives of Islam in the US Colonial Philippines 1900-1914 Joshua Gedacht (Rowan University USA) 11. An Ottoman Notable in America in 1915-1916: Sayyid Wajih al-Kilani of Nazareth William G Clarence-Smith (SOAS University of London UK) Epilogue: The Global History of American and Muslim Worlds Heather J Sharkey (University of Pennsylvania USA) Bibliography Index
List of Images List of contributors Introduction Part One: Islam and the Making of the Early American Republic 1. Benjamin Franklin Islam and the Abolition of Slavery (Denise Spellberg University of Texas at Austin USA) 2. The Greek War of Independence and the Ideological Manifestations of the Clash of Civilizations Theory in the United States 1821-1830 Karine Walther (Georgetown University School of Foreign Service Qatar) Part II: The Muslim Experience in the Americas 3. Nicholas Said's America: Islam the Civil War and the Emergence of African American Narrative Ira Dworkin (Texas A&M University USA) 4. Transcending Transcendentalism: An Islam Surface Reading of African Muslim Slave Narratives in Antebellum America Zeinab McHeimech (Western University Canada) 5. Crossing Oceans Transgressing Boundaries: Incorporating Muslims and Moriscos into Histories of Colonial Spanish America Karoline Cook (Royal Holloway University of London UK) Part III: Muslim Worlds in the American Imaginary 6. 'An Unwelcome Present': Simulation and Simulacra in the Unlikely Friendship of General Lew Wallace and Sultan Abdülhamit II Bill Hunt (Barton College USA) 7. The Lost Tribes of the Afghans: Religious Mobility and Entanglement in Narratives of Afghan Origins William E B Sherman (UNC Charlotte USA) 8. Imagining Empire: Islamic India in Nineteenth-Century US Print Culture Susan Ryan (University of Louisville USA) Part IV: Islam and American Empire: The Case of the Philippines 9. Subjugating the Sultan of Sulu: American Imperial Negotiations in the Muslim Philippines Timothy Marr (University of North Carolina USA) 10. Native Americans the Ottoman Empire and Global Narratives of Islam in the US Colonial Philippines 1900-1914 Joshua Gedacht (Rowan University USA) 11. An Ottoman Notable in America in 1915-1916: Sayyid Wajih al-Kilani of Nazareth William G Clarence-Smith (SOAS University of London UK) Epilogue: The Global History of American and Muslim Worlds Heather J Sharkey (University of Pennsylvania USA) Bibliography Index
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