Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad is Professor of Islamic History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Contemporary Islam and the Challenge of History ; co-author with Jane Idleman Smith of Mission to America; and co-author of Women, Religion, and Social Change. Jane Idleman Smith is Academic Dean and Professor of History of Religions at the Iliff School of Theology. She is the author of The Concept of 'Islam' in the History of Qur'anic Studies; co-author with Yvonne Haddad of Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection; and editor of Women in Contemporary Muslim Society.

• ContributorsPrefaceMuslim Communities in North America: IntroductionPart 1. Religious Communities1. A Minority Within a Minority: The Case of the Shi'a in North AmericaAbdulaziz Sachedina2. The Sun of Islam Will Rise in the West: Minister Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam in the Latter DaysMattias Gardell3. Urban Muslims: The Formation of the Dar ul-Islam MovementR. M. Mukhtar Curtis4. Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary American Islamic Spirituality: The Bawa Muhaiyaddeen FellowshipGisela Webb5. The Five Percenters: A Teenage Nation of Gods and EarthsYusuf NuruddinPart 2. The Mosaic of Islamic Communities in Major Metropolitan Centers of the United States6. Muslims in Los AngelesRon Kelley7. The Muslims of San DiegoM. K. Hermansen8. Muslims of SeattleMiriam Adeney and Kathryn DeMaster9. To "Achieve the Pleasure of Allah": Immigrant Muslim Communities in New York City 1893–1991Marc Ferris10. Activities of the Immigrant Muslim Communities in ChicagoAsad Husain and Harold Vogelaar11. The Muslims of IndianapolisSteve A. Johnson12. Diversity in Rochester's Islamic CommunityTamara Sonn13. The Islamic Center of New EnglandMary Lahaj14. Muslims of MontrealSheila McDonoughPart 3. Ethnic Communities in Settings15. The Shi'a Mosques and their Congregations in DearbornLinda S. Walbridge16. Bektashi Tekke and the Sunni Mosque of Albanian Muslims in AmericaFrances Trix17. Voluntary Associations in the Old Turkish Community of Metropolitan DetroitBarbara Bilgé18. Elderly Muslim Immigrants: Needs and ChallengesFariyal Ross-Sheriff20. Secular Immigrants: Religiosity and Ethnicity Among Iranian Muslims in Los AngelesGeorges Sabagh and Mehdi Bozorgmehr21. Masjid ul-Mutkabir: The Portrait of an African American Orthodox Muslim CommunityChristine Kolars 22. Attitudes of Immigrant Women and Men in the Dearborn Area Toward Women's Employment and WelfareBarbara AswadBibliographyIndex

Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad is Professor of Islamic History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Contemporary Islam and the Challenge of History ; co-author with Jane Idleman Smith of Mission to America; and co-author of Women, Religion, and Social Change. Jane Idleman Smith is Academic Dean and Professor of History of Religions at the Iliff School of Theology. She is the author of The Concept of 'Islam' in the History of Qur'anic Studies; co-author with Yvonne Haddad of Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection; and editor of Women in Contemporary Muslim Society.

• ContributorsPrefaceMuslim Communities in North America: IntroductionPart 1. Religious Communities1. A Minority Within a Minority: The Case of the Shi'a in North AmericaAbdulaziz Sachedina2. The Sun of Islam Will Rise in the West: Minister Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam in the Latter DaysMattias Gardell3. Urban Muslims: The Formation of the Dar ul-Islam MovementR. M. Mukhtar Curtis4. Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary American Islamic Spirituality: The Bawa Muhaiyaddeen FellowshipGisela Webb5. The Five Percenters: A Teenage Nation of Gods and EarthsYusuf NuruddinPart 2. The Mosaic of Islamic Communities in Major Metropolitan Centers of the United States6. Muslims in Los AngelesRon Kelley7. The Muslims of San DiegoM. K. Hermansen8. Muslims of SeattleMiriam Adeney and Kathryn DeMaster9. To "Achieve the Pleasure of Allah": Immigrant Muslim Communities in New York City 1893–1991Marc Ferris10. Activities of the Immigrant Muslim Communities in ChicagoAsad Husain and Harold Vogelaar11. The Muslims of IndianapolisSteve A. Johnson12. Diversity in Rochester's Islamic CommunityTamara Sonn13. The Islamic Center of New EnglandMary Lahaj14. Muslims of MontrealSheila McDonoughPart 3. Ethnic Communities in Settings15. The Shi'a Mosques and their Congregations in DearbornLinda S. Walbridge16. Bektashi Tekke and the Sunni Mosque of Albanian Muslims in AmericaFrances Trix17. Voluntary Associations in the Old Turkish Community of Metropolitan DetroitBarbara Bilgé18. Elderly Muslim Immigrants: Needs and ChallengesFariyal Ross-Sheriff20. Secular Immigrants: Religiosity and Ethnicity Among Iranian Muslims in Los AngelesGeorges Sabagh and Mehdi Bozorgmehr21. Masjid ul-Mutkabir: The Portrait of an African American Orthodox Muslim CommunityChristine Kolars 22. Attitudes of Immigrant Women and Men in the Dearborn Area Toward Women's Employment and WelfareBarbara AswadBibliographyIndex