TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marr,Timothy
TI  - The cultural roots of American Islamicism
SN  - 0521852935
AV  - E164 .M37 2006
U1  - 909.09767 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Islam
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - History
KW  - Orientalism
KW  - United States
KW  - Islam and politics
KW  - Religion and sociology
KW  - Civilization
KW  - 1783-1865
KW  - Islamic countries
KW  - Foreign public opinion, American
KW  - Relations
KW  - Intellectual life
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -