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New Muslims in the European contextby A.S. Roald
BRILL 2004; US$ 181.00This volume deals with Scandinavian converts to Islam, discussing the process of conversion as well as the converts' role in Muslim communities and in majority society. As Islam is a new phenomenon in Scandinavia, the story of the new Muslims becomes also a story of the development of Scandinavian Islamic ideas. The book examines the specific features of Scandinavian society and Islamophobia in Scandinavia. It goes on to discuss the conversion process, Muslim convert trends common in Europe as well as in Scandinavia, and provides a detailed discussion of literature read or written by converts. The discussion of the new Muslims' experiences includes a discussion of the trend towards understanding Islam according to Scandinavian values. more...
Islamic Da`wah in the Westby Larry Poston
Oxford University Press 1992; US$ 120.00An examination of Islamic evangelism, or da'wah, as it has been interpreted and practiced by Muslims in the West. Beginning with a history of Islamic expansionism, the author traces the concept of da'wah from the earliest followers of Islam to new missionary strategies in North America. more...
Becoming Muslimby Anna Mansson McGinty
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 80.00While Islam has become a controversial topic in the West, a growing number of Westerners find powerful meaning in Islam. This book is an ethnographic study based on in-depth interviews with Swedish and American women who have converted to Islam. more...
Impossible Manby Michael Muhammad Knight
Soft Skull Press 2009; US$ 15.95Recognized by readers of his novel, The Taqwacores, as the godfather of American Muslim punk, Michael Muhammad Knight is a voice for the growing number of teenagers who choose neither side of the Clash of Civilizations. Knight has now written his personal story, a chronicle of his bizarre and traumatic boyhood and his conversion to Islam during a turbulent adolescence. Impossible Man follows a boys struggle in coming to terms with his fathera paranoid schizophrenic and white supremacist who had threatened to decapitate Michael when he was a babyand his fathers place in his own identity. It is also the story of a teenagers troubled path to maturity and the influences that steady him along the way. Knights... more...
Welcome to Islamby Lucy Bushill-Matthews
Continuum International Publishing 2008; US$ 19.95Written by a Muslim convert and mother of three, Welcome to Islam captures the occasionally poignant but often humorous reality of being a Muslim in the current climate: as a convert, a working woman, a mother, and as an active member of the local community. Discover what it’s really like living life as a Muslim: praying the ritual prayers at work in an office when your boss walks in; going on Hajj with hundreds of Saudi women dressed from head to toe in black; or explaining to your six-year-old daughter, who is looking at the pictures in the newspaper, that the bearded Asian Muslim who is being arrested for terrorism isn’t in fact the family friend we all know and love - just someone who looks extremely similar. It is rare to pick... more...
Wisdom's Journeyby John Herlihy
World Wisdom 2009; US$ 9.99John Herlihy takes readers on a journey of understanding to the heart of Islam, the world?s fastest growing religion. Weaving details of Islam?s central beliefs and practices?its Five Pillars?with intimate autobiographical details of his more than thirty years in the religion, Herlihy provides readers with an insightful glimpse into a religion that currently claims more than one billion adherents and yet remains so often misunderstood in the West. In Wisdom?s Journey Herlihy speaks openly about his conversion to Islam and intimately retells his moving experiences while performing the pilgrimage to the sacred city of Mecca and to the tomb of the Prophet in Medina. more...
Contested Conversions to Islamby Tijana Krstic
Stanford University Press 2011; US$ 60.00This book explores how Ottoman Muslims and Christians understood the phenomenon of conversion to Islam from the 15th to the 17th centuries, when the Ottoman Empire was at the height of its power and conversions to Islam peaked. Because the Ottomans ruled over a large non-Muslim population and extended greater opportunities to converts than to native-born Muslims, conversion to Islam was a contentious subject for all communities, especially Muslims themselves. By producing narratives about conversion, Ottoman Muslim and Christian authors sought to define the boundaries and membership of their communities while promoting their own religious and political agendas. Krstic argues that the production and circulation of narratives about conversion... more...
Islam in Victorian Britainby Ron Geaves
Kube Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 14.95An entertaining biography of Victorian Britain’s most notable Muslim, Abdullah Quilliam, the Sheikh of Islam of the British Isles. more...
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