The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism

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Cambridge University Press, 2006 M07 3 - 309 pages
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 prophecy, politics, reform, fiction, art and dress. Marr argues that perceptions of the Muslim world, long viewed not only as both an anti-Christian and despotic threat but also as an exotic other, held a larger place in domestic American concerns than previously thought. Historical, literary, and imagined encounters with Muslim history and practices provided a backdrop where different Americans oriented the direction of their national project, the morality of the social institutions, and the contours of their romantic imaginations. This history sits as an important background to help understand present conflicts between the Muslim world and the United States.
 

Contents

Section 1
32
Section 2
48
Section 3
80
Section 4
82
Section 5
96
Section 6
101
Section 7
134
Section 8
185
Section 10
219
Section 11
220
Section 12
262
Section 13
263
Section 14
266
Section 15
269
Section 16
275
Section 17
284

Section 9
211
Section 18
295

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