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_b.M37 2006
082 0 0 _a909.09767
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_bM.T.C
100 1 _aMarr, Timothy,
_d1960-
_914685
_eauthor
245 1 4 _aThe cultural roots of American Islamicism /
_cTimothy Marr.
264 1 _aCambridge ;
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2006.
300 _axii, 309 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
520 _aIn 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
650 0 _aIslam
_xPublic opinion
_xHistory.
_914686
650 0 _aOrientalism
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
_914687
650 0 _aPublic opinion
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
_914688
650 0 _aIslam and politics
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
_914689
650 0 _aReligion and sociology
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
_914690
651 0 _aUnited States
_xCivilization
_y1783-1865.
_914691
651 0 _aIslamic countries
_xForeign public opinion, American.
_914692
651 0 _aIslamic countries
_xRelations
_zUnited States.
_914693
651 0 _aUnited States
_xRelations
_zIslamic countries.
_914694
651 0 _aUnited States
_xIntellectual life
_y1783-1865.
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942 _cBK
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