Muslim Experience in America

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A brief introduction to the Islamic Faith, its history and its encounter with the west. An insight to Islam in the “New World”: Islam in Colonial and Antebellum America, Islam in post-Civil War era, Muslim immigration at the turn of the 20th Century and American Muslim Institution build- ing. Emphasis on Islam in African American communities from the rise of the Nation of Islam to its current days, and on the impact of 9/11 and Islamophobia.