Yvonne Haddad is Professor of History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. Past president of the Middle East Studies Association, she has authored and edited many books on contemporary Islam. Jane I. Smith is Professor of Islamic Studies and Co-Director of the Macdonald Center for Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary. She has done extensive work on Muslim communities in America, Christian theology in relation to Islam, historical relations between Christians and Muslims, Islamic conceptions of death and afterlife, and the role and status of women in Islam. She is also co-editor of The Muslim World.

This is precisely the kind of material which should be available to a Western audience to put the situation and interests of the Muslim minorities into perspective, at a time when public agendas—media and political—seem to be set by reactions to the events of 11 September.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 The American ExperienceChapter 3 Spreading the Word: Communicating Islam in AmericaChapter 4 The Politics of Transfiguration: Constitutive Aspects of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998Chapter 5 American Muslim ParadoxChapter 6 The Greatest Migration?Chapter 7 Islamic Party in North America: A Quiet Storm of Political ActivismChapter 8 The Complexity of Belonging: Sunni Muslim Immigrants in ChicagoChapter 9 Being Arab and Becoming Americanized: Mediated Assimilation in Metropolitan DetroitPart 10 The European ExperienceChapter 11 Invisible Muslims: The Sahelians in FranceChapter 12 The Northern Way: Muslim Communities in NorwayChapter 13 Turks in Germany: Muslim Idenity "Between" StatesPart 14 The Experience in Areas of European SettlementChapter 15 The Muslim Communities in Australia: The Building of a CommunityChapter 16 Muslim Women as Citizens in Australia: Perth as a Case StudyChapter 17 Muslims in New ZealandChapter 18 Muslims in South Africa19 Muslims in the Caribbean: Ethnic Sojourners and Citizens

Yvonne Haddad is Professor of History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. Past president of the Middle East Studies Association, she has authored and edited many books on contemporary Islam. Jane I. Smith is Professor of Islamic Studies and Co-Director of the Macdonald Center for Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary. She has done extensive work on Muslim communities in America, Christian theology in relation to Islam, historical relations between Christians and Muslims, Islamic conceptions of death and afterlife, and the role and status of women in Islam. She is also co-editor of The Muslim World.

This is precisely the kind of material which should be available to a Western audience to put the situation and interests of the Muslim minorities into perspective, at a time when public agendas—media and political—seem to be set by reactions to the events of 11 September.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 The American ExperienceChapter 3 Spreading the Word: Communicating Islam in AmericaChapter 4 The Politics of Transfiguration: Constitutive Aspects of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998Chapter 5 American Muslim ParadoxChapter 6 The Greatest Migration?Chapter 7 Islamic Party in North America: A Quiet Storm of Political ActivismChapter 8 The Complexity of Belonging: Sunni Muslim Immigrants in ChicagoChapter 9 Being Arab and Becoming Americanized: Mediated Assimilation in Metropolitan DetroitPart 10 The European ExperienceChapter 11 Invisible Muslims: The Sahelians in FranceChapter 12 The Northern Way: Muslim Communities in NorwayChapter 13 Turks in Germany: Muslim Idenity "Between" StatesPart 14 The Experience in Areas of European SettlementChapter 15 The Muslim Communities in Australia: The Building of a CommunityChapter 16 Muslim Women as Citizens in Australia: Perth as a Case StudyChapter 17 Muslims in New ZealandChapter 18 Muslims in South Africa19 Muslims in the Caribbean: Ethnic Sojourners and Citizens

Yvonne Haddad is Professor of History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. Past president of the Middle East Studies Association, she has authored and edited many books on contemporary Islam. Jane I. Smith is Professor of Islamic Studies and Co-Director of the Macdonald Center for Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary. She has done extensive work on Muslim communities in America, Christian theology in relation to Islam, historical relations between Christians and Muslims, Islamic conceptions of death and afterlife, and the role and status of women in Islam. She is also co-editor of The Muslim World.

This is precisely the kind of material which should be available to a Western audience to put the situation and interests of the Muslim minorities into perspective, at a time when public agendas—media and political—seem to be set by reactions to the events of 11 September.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 The American ExperienceChapter 3 Spreading the Word: Communicating Islam in AmericaChapter 4 The Politics of Transfiguration: Constitutive Aspects of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998Chapter 5 American Muslim ParadoxChapter 6 The Greatest Migration?Chapter 7 Islamic Party in North America: A Quiet Storm of Political ActivismChapter 8 The Complexity of Belonging: Sunni Muslim Immigrants in ChicagoChapter 9 Being Arab and Becoming Americanized: Mediated Assimilation in Metropolitan DetroitPart 10 The European ExperienceChapter 11 Invisible Muslims: The Sahelians in FranceChapter 12 The Northern Way: Muslim Communities in NorwayChapter 13 Turks in Germany: Muslim Idenity "Between" StatesPart 14 The Experience in Areas of European SettlementChapter 15 The Muslim Communities in Australia: The Building of a CommunityChapter 16 Muslim Women as Citizens in Australia: Perth as a Case StudyChapter 17 Muslims in New ZealandChapter 18 Muslims in South Africa19 Muslims in the Caribbean: Ethnic Sojourners and Citizens