Table of Contents

Contributors Preface Muslim Communities in North America: Introduction Part 1. Religious Communities 1. A Minority Within a Minority: The Case of the Shi'a in North America Abdulaziz Sachedina 2. The Sun of Islam Will Rise in the West: Minister Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam in the Latter Days Mattias Gardell 3. Urban Muslims: The Formation of the Dar ul-Islam Movement R. M. Mukhtar Curtis 4. Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary American Islamic Spirituality: The Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship Gisela Webb 5. The Five Percenters: A Teenage Nation of Gods and Earths Yusuf Nuruddin Part 2. The Mosaic of Islamic Communities in Major Metropolitan Centers of the United States 6. Muslims in Los Angeles Ron Kelley 7. The Muslims of San Diego M. K. Hermansen 8. Muslims of Seattle Miriam Adeney and Kathryn DeMaster 9. To "Achieve the Pleasure of Allah": Immigrant Muslim Communities in New York City 1893--1991 Marc Ferris 10. Activities of the Immigrant Muslim Communities in Chicago Asad Husain and Harold Vogelaar 11. The Muslims of Indianapolis Steve A. Johnson 12. Diversity in Rochester's Islamic Community Tamara Sonn 13. The Islamic Center of New England Mary Lahaj 14. Muslims of Montreal Sheila McDonough Part 3. Ethnic Communities in Settings 15. The Shi'a Mosques and their Congregations in Dearborn Linda S. Walbridge 16. Bektashi Tekke and the Sunni Mosque of Albanian Muslims in America Frances Trix 17. Voluntary Associations in the Old Turkish Community of Metropolitan Detroit Barbara Bilge 18. Elderly Muslim Immigrants: Needs and Challenges Fariyal Ross-Sheriff 20. Secular Immigrants: Religiosity and Ethnicity Among Iranian Muslims in Los Angeles Georges Sabagh and Mehdi Bozorgmehr 21. Masjid ul-Mutkabir: The Portrait of an African American Orthodox Muslim Community Christine Kolars 22. Attitudes of Immigrant Women and Men in the Dearborn Area Toward Women's Employment and Welfare Barbara Aswad Bibliography Index

About the Author

Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad is Professor of Islamic History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Contemporary Islam and the Challenge of History; co-author with Jane Idleman Smith of Mission to America; and co-author of Women, Religion, and Social Change. Jane Idleman Smith is Academic Dean and Professor of History of Religions at the Iliff School of Theology. She is the author of The Concept of 'Islam' in the History of Qur'anic Studies; co-author with Yvonne Haddad of Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection; and editor of Women in Contemporary Muslim Society.