By Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
ISBN-10: 1423790413
ISBN-13: 9781423790419
ISBN-10: 1932792058
ISBN-13: 9781932792058
Haddad's lecture is a mirrored image on Muslim and Arab identification within the usa and the profound influence that the terrorist assaults of September eleventh, 2001 had, and may proceed to have, in shaping this identification.
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He believed that Muslims in the United States should adopt the practice prevalent among African-American Muslims and make the mosque a family-centered place, where women attended and participated in Christian Mission and Islamic Da‘wah: Proceedings of the Chambesy Dialogue Consultation (Leister: The Islamic Foundation, 1982). 62 Ismail Raji al-Faruqi, Trialogue of the Abrahamic Faiths (Herndon, VA: International Institute of Islamic Thought, 1982). 63 Ismail Raji al-Faruqi, Islam and Culture (Kuala Lumpur: ABIM, 1980).
He believed that infusing the social sciences and the humanities with an Islamic foundation would help bring about the revival of Islam in the modern world. Towards this goal, he helped establish the American Association of Muslim Social Scientists, the International Institute of Islamic Thought in Northern Virginia, and the Islamic College in Chicago to provide committed Islamic leadership, not only for the immigrant community, but more importantly, to the whole world of Islam. His writings were popular among a significant segment of Muslim students on American campuses who found in them the way to maintain a distinctive identity that enhanced their strategy of survival in a hostile environment.
These recent Arab-Americans collaborate with existing organizations for human rights, minority rights, and religious rights. These activists are mostly in their twenties and thirties, and they take American values very seriously. They believe that they are working to create a better America, one that is not blinded by special interests but is truly guided by the values it preaches. In the process, they believe that they are truly Arab—truly American. There is a marked difference between those who emigrated in the 1960s and the children and grandchildren of the immigrants of the 1870s.
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