The cultural roots of American Islamicism /
Marr, Timothy, 1960-
The cultural roots of American Islamicism / Timothy Marr. - xii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: imagining Ishmael: introducing American Islamicism; 1. Islamicism and counterdespotism in early national cultural expression; 2. 'Drying up the Euphrates': Muslims, millennialism, and early American missionary enterprise; 3. Antebellum Islamicism and the transnational crusade of antislavery and temperance reform; 4. 'Turkey is in our midst': Mormonism as an American 'Islam'; 5. American Ishmael: Herman Melville's literary Islamicism; Conclusion: American Howadjis: the gendered pageantry of mid-nineteenth-century Islamicism.
In this cultural history of Americans' engagement with Islam in the colonial and antebellum period, Timothy Marr analyzes the historical roots of how the Muslim world figured in American life. This history sits as an important background to help understand present conflicts between the Muslim world and the USA
0521852935 052161807X 9780521852937 9780521618076
2005022675
Islam--Public opinion--History.
Orientalism--History.--United States
Public opinion--History.--United States
Islam and politics--History.--United States
Religion and sociology--History.--United States
United States--Civilization--1783-1865.
Islamic countries--Foreign public opinion, American.
Islamic countries--Relations--United States.
United States--Relations--Islamic countries.
United States--Intellectual life--1783-1865.
E164 / .M37 2006
909.09767 / M.T.C
The cultural roots of American Islamicism / Timothy Marr. - xii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: imagining Ishmael: introducing American Islamicism; 1. Islamicism and counterdespotism in early national cultural expression; 2. 'Drying up the Euphrates': Muslims, millennialism, and early American missionary enterprise; 3. Antebellum Islamicism and the transnational crusade of antislavery and temperance reform; 4. 'Turkey is in our midst': Mormonism as an American 'Islam'; 5. American Ishmael: Herman Melville's literary Islamicism; Conclusion: American Howadjis: the gendered pageantry of mid-nineteenth-century Islamicism.
In this cultural history of Americans' engagement with Islam in the colonial and antebellum period, Timothy Marr analyzes the historical roots of how the Muslim world figured in American life. This history sits as an important background to help understand present conflicts between the Muslim world and the USA
0521852935 052161807X 9780521852937 9780521618076
2005022675
Islam--Public opinion--History.
Orientalism--History.--United States
Public opinion--History.--United States
Islam and politics--History.--United States
Religion and sociology--History.--United States
United States--Civilization--1783-1865.
Islamic countries--Foreign public opinion, American.
Islamic countries--Relations--United States.
United States--Relations--Islamic countries.
United States--Intellectual life--1783-1865.
E164 / .M37 2006
909.09767 / M.T.C