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It is 2090 and the world is on the verge of domination by the Caliphate. The future hangs in the balance as the religion of peace struggles against violent opposition. Islamist fanatics covering the globe are killing, burning, and bombing in an extravagant display of well-coordinated force designed to terrorize humanity out of its "godless slumber." But two brilliant Muslim women are determined to save their religion from its counterfeit, supported by the non-Muslim religion professor they both love. Their weapons aren't guns and bombs, but ideas and inspired brave leadership. As they race to show the world a new way to be Muslim and strive to return tolerance and understanding to the human race, their breathtaking adventure takes the reader from New York City to Europe, Japan, India, and Sudan. The bizarre massacres devised by the Caliphate keep steady pressure on these complex and courageous women, as do the multi-million-dollar fatwas on their lives... Can the war for the very soul of Islam be won?
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• Introduction: Washington Irving and Islam Zubeda Jalalzai 1.Spanish Orientalism: Washington Irving and the Romance of the Moors Michael Stevens 2.What Pious Moslem Writers Tell Us: Irving's Filtering of His Sources in Mahomet and His Successors Ray Lacina
• 3. A Knickerbocker Prophet: Washington Irving's Americanization of "Mahomet" Doyle Quiggle 4.Think Local, Act Global: The Development of Islam in Washington Irving's Mahomet and His Successors Jeffrey Scraba 5.Irving's Cadijah and Women of Power in Salmagundi and Mahomet Tracy Hoffman Afterword: The Seal and Conclusion Jeffrey Einboden.
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Washington Irving and Islam contributes to understanding the relationship between the United States and the Islamic world, valuable not only for studies of Washington Irving, American Literature, or Islam, but also for thinking through the role Islam and the "Orient" have played in American literature and history, a critical field receiving ever-increasing attention. The global context of Irving's work ties these essays together as does an understanding that his writings challenge easy classification of the Muslim other, and, indeed, challenge easy classification of Irving's own responses to that other. Washington Irving bestrides opposing positions as well as distant worlds.
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With breathtaking illustrations and informative text, GOLDEN DOMES AND SILVER LANTERNS magnificently captures the world of Islam, celebrating its beauty and traditions for even the youngest readers. From a red prayer rug to a blue hijab, readers will learn about a different color of the Muslim world on each spread with a young Muslim girl and her family as a guide. Sure to inspire questions and observations about world religions and cultures, it is equally at home in a classroom reading circle as it is being read to a child on a parent's lap.
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Yasmeen has a wonderful time celebrating the Muslim holy month of Ramadan with her family and friends.

• Introduction: race, religion, nation
• Navigating bodies
• Curating religion
• Novel formations
• Secularism and the apocalypse
• Religious geographies and secular maps
• Conclusion: imagining our own grace.

Interrogating Secularism is a call to rethink binary categories of ""religion"" and ""secularism"" in contemporary Arab American fiction and art. While most studies that explore the traffic between literature and issues of secularism emphasize how canonical texts naturalize and reinforce secular values, Interrogating Secularism approaches this nexus through novels written by and about ethnic and religious minorities. Haque juxtaposes accounts of secular experience in the writing of Arab Anglophone authors such as Mohja Kahf, Rabih Alameddine, Khaled Mattawa, Laila Lalami, and Rawi Hage, with Arab and Muslim artists such as Ninar Esber, Mounir Fatmi, Hasan Elahi, and Emily Jacir. Looking at multiple genres and modes of aesthetic production, including AIDS narratives, visual art, and digital media, Haque explores how their conventions are used to subvert the ideals tied to secularism and the various anxieties and investments that support secularism as a premise. These authors and artists critique Western iterations of secular thought in spaces such as art exhibits, airports, borders, and literary discourses to capture how the secularism thesis reproduces the exclusivity it intends to remedy.
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A visit with Grandmother in the Middle East is always special for Yasmin, but this time it is even more so in this picture book about faith and family.On her first night visiting her grandmother, Yasmin is wakened by the muezzin at the nearby mosque calling the faithful to prayer. She watches from her bed as her grandmother prepares to pray. During her stay, Yasmin's grandmother makes her prayer clothes, buys her a prayer rug, and teaches her the five prayers that Muslims perform over the course of a day. When it's time for Yasmin to board a plane and return home, her grandmother gives her a present. When Yasmin opens the present when she gets home, she discovers a prayer clock in the shape of a mosque, with an alarm that sounds like a muezzin calling the faithful to prayer.Maha Addasi's warm and endearing story, richly illustrated by Ned Gannon, is the recipient of an Arab American Book Award, Honor Book. Featuring text both in English and Arabic, this is a perfect title for children learning more about Middle Eastern cultures and language.School Library Journal says: "A beautifully woven tale of grandparent affection and spiritual development."Booklist says: "An affectionate, intergenerational story.".
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• Always a writer : The green dog and Staples's sense of story
• Shabanu: striking a balance between self and society
• Haveli: a modern tale of Anarkali
• Echoes of the past and heralds of the future in the House of Djinn
• Critical reception of the Pakistani trilogy
• Learning to discriminate: injustice in dangerous skies
• Dancing a world into existence: Shiva's fire
• Under the persimmon tree and an unlikely pair of stargazers.

This volume examines the six novels and memoir of Suzanne Fisher Staples, including her most famous work: the Pakistani trilogy (Shabanu, Haveli and The House of Djinn). The author considers the predominant themes, characters, and settings of each work, providing background information about the countries, cultures, religions, and art forms that are central to Staples's writing.
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• Preface: Roadside Attraction
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Guest Figures
• 1 The Barbarous Voice of Democracy
• 2 Pentimento Geographies
• 3 Poe's Taste for the Arabesque
• 4 American Moors and the Barbaresque
• 5 Arab Masquerade: Mahjar Identity Politics and Transnationalism
• Afterword: Haunted Houses
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author.
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American Arabesque examines representations of Arabs, Islam and the Near East in nineteenth-century American culture, arguing that these representations play a significant role in the development of American national identity over the century, revealing largely unexplored exchanges between these two cultural traditions that will alter how we understand them today. Moving from the period of America's engagement in the Barbary Wars through the Holy Land travel mania in the years of Jacksonian expansion and into the writings of romantics such as Edgar Allen Poe, the book argues that not only were Arabs and Muslims prominently featured in nineteenth-century literature, but that the differences writers established between figures such as Moors, Bedouins, Turks and Orientals provide proof of the transnational scope of domestic racial politics. Drawing on both English and Arabic language sources, Berman contends that the fluidity and instability of the term Arab as it appears in captivity narratives, travel narratives, imaginative literature, and ethnic literature simultaneously instantiate and undermine definitions of the American nation and American citizenship.
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• Acknowledgments
• Introduction-Words Beneath Words
• 1 Traveling with an American Qur'an: Sandow Birk and the Thirty Mosques in Thirty Days Project
• 1 Plurality Across 30 Mosques
• 2 Everyday Bonds: Living Muslim Lives in America
• 3 Assembling the Stories of 30 Mosques
• 4 Sandow Birk and Scenes for an American Qur'an
• 5 Bending Borders in an American Qur'an
• 6 Tradition as a Ritual Process of Communication
• 2 "Learning to Pray All Over": The Body in Mohja Kahf's Poetry and Fiction
• 1 Marvelous Women
• 2 The Language of the Body
• 3 (Un)moored
• 4 Just Being
• 3 "Are You A Muslim or Will You Love?" Dropping the Veil in Kazim Ali's Writing
• 1 The Body in Space
• 2 Patterns in and of the Body
• 4 Begun in Mystery: Ayad Akhtar's Fiction and Drama
• 1 Visible Lives, Invisible Hands
• 2 The Invisible Hand
• 3 Akhtar's Islam
• 4 Faith and the Body
• 5 Disgraced
• 5 "Sometimes I Feel Me": Between Faith and Resistance in the Poetry of Blackamerican Islam
• 1 Amir Sulaiman
• 2 Blueprint
• 6 Where Hope Begins: The Intertextual Worlds of Rabih Alameddine
• 1 Intertextual Violence and Identity
• 2 Violence, Identity, Hope
• Conclusion-"Half In, Half Out": Willow Wilson and Ms. Marvel to the Rescue
• Bibliography Index.
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For the writers and artists in In-Between Identities: Signs of Islam in Contemporary American Writing, contemporary Muslim American identity is neither singular nor fixed. Rather than dismiss the tradition in favor of more secular approaches, however, all of the figures here discover in Muhammad's revelation resources for affirming such uncertainty. For them, the Qur'anic notion of a divine "sign" validates creation, even that creativity born of contrasting if not competing assumptions about identity. To develop this claim, individual chapters in the book discuss Muslim faith in the work of poets Naomi Shihab Nye, Kazim Ali, Tyson Amir and Amir Sulaiman; novelists Mohja Kahf, Rabih Alameddine, and Willow Wilson; illustrator Sandow Birk; playwright Ayad Akhtar; and the online record of the 30 Mosques in 30 Days project.
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• Introduction: race, religion, nation
• Navigating bodies
• Curating religion
• Novel formations
• Secularism and the apocalypse
• Religious geographies and secular maps
• Conclusion: imagining our own grace.

Interrogating Secularism is a call to rethink binary categories of ""religion"" and ""secularism"" in contemporary Arab American fiction and art. While most studies that explore the traffic between literature and issues of secularism emphasize how canonical texts naturalize and reinforce secular values, Interrogating Secularism approaches this nexus through novels written by and about ethnic and religious minorities. Haque juxtaposes accounts of secular experience in the writing of Arab Anglophone authors such as Mohja Kahf, Rabih Alameddine, Khaled Mattawa, Laila Lalami, and Rawi Hage, with Arab and Muslim artists such as Ninar Esber, Mounir Fatmi, Hasan Elahi, and Emily Jacir. Looking at multiple genres and modes of aesthetic production, including AIDS narratives, visual art, and digital media, Haque explores how their conventions are used to subvert the ideals tied to secularism and the various anxieties and investments that support secularism as a premise. These authors and artists critique Western iterations of secular thought in spaces such as art exhibits, airports, borders, and literary discourses to capture how the secularism thesis reproduces the exclusivity it intends to remedy.
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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! A powerful, vibrantly illustrated story about the first day of school--and two sisters on one's first day of hijab--by Olympic medalist and social justice activist Ibtihaj Muhammad. With her new backpack and light-up shoes, Faizah knows the first day of school is going to be special. It's the start of a brand new year and, best of all, it's her older sister Asiya's first day of hijab--a hijab of beautiful blue fabric, like the ocean waving to the sky. But not everyone sees hijab as beautiful, and in the face of hurtful, confusing words, Faizah will find new ways to be strong. Paired with Hatem Aly's beautiful, whimsical art, Olympic medalist Ibtihaj Muhammad and Morris Award finalist S.K. Ali bring readers an uplifting, universal story of new experiences, the unbreakable bond between siblings, and of being proud of who you are.
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Allie Abraham is a straight-A student, with good friends and a close-knit family. She's dating cute, popular, and sweet Wells Henderson-- whose father is Jack Henderson, America's most famous conservative shock jock. Allie hasn't told Wells that her family is Muslim. It's not a secret, it's just that her parents don't practice and raised her to keep her Islamic heritage to herself. As Allie witnesses ever-growing Islamophobia in her small town and across the nation, she begins to study her faith, practicing it, and facing hatred and misunderstanding for it. Can a Muslim girl in America ever truly fit in? -- adapted from jacket

Now that she is ten, Lailah is delighted that she can fast during the month of Ramadan like her family and her friends in Abu Dhabi, but finding a way to explain to her teacher and classmates in Atlanta is a challenge until she gets some good advice from the librarian, Mrs. Carman.

• Foreword / Jacob Needleman
• Introduction / Mehdi Aminrazavi
• The English Romantic Background:
• 1. English Romantics and Persian Sufi Poets: A Wellspring of Inspiration for American Transcendentalists / Leonard Lewisohn
• The Master: Emerson and Sufism:
• 2. The Chronological Development of Emerson's Interest in Persian Mysticism / Mansur Ekhtiyar
• 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Muslim Orient / Marwan M. Obediat
• 4. Emerson and Aspects of Sa'di's Reception in 19thNineteenth Century America / Parvin Loloi
• 5. Emerson on Hafiz and Sa'di: The Narrative of Love and Wine / Farhang Jahanpour
• The Disciple: Walt Whitman:
• 6. Whitman and Hafiz: Expressions of Universal Love and Tolerance / Mahnaz Ahmad
• 7. Walt Whitman and Sufism: Towards a Persian Lesson / Massud Farzan
• The Initiates: Other American Authors:
• 8. Literary 'Masters' in the Literature of Thomas Lake Harris, Lawrence Oliphant, and Paschal Beverly Randolph / Arthur Versluis
• 9. American Transcendentalists' Interpretations of Sufism: Thoreau, Whitman, Longfellow, Lowell, Melville, and Lafcadio Hearn / John D. Yohannan
• 10. The Persians of Concord / Phillip N. Edmondson
• 11. Omarian Poets of America / Mehdi Aminrazavi
• 12. 'Bond Slave to FitzGerald's Omar': Mark Twain and the Ruba'iyat / Alan Gribben
• 13. Mark Twain's Ruba'iyat: AGE
• A
• Contributors' Biographies
• Bibliography
• Glossary
• Index.

• Preface: Roadside Attraction
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Guest Figures
• 1 The Barbarous Voice of Democracy
• 2 Pentimento Geographies
• 3 Poe's Taste for the Arabesque
• 4 American Moors and the Barbaresque
• 5 Arab Masquerade: Mahjar Identity Politics and Transnationalism
• Afterword: Haunted Houses
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author.
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American Arabesque examines representations of Arabs, Islam and the Near East in nineteenth-century American culture, arguing that these representations play a significant role in the development of American national identity over the century, revealing largely unexplored exchanges between these two cultural traditions that will alter how we understand them today. Moving from the period of America's engagement in the Barbary Wars through the Holy Land travel mania in the years of Jacksonian expansion and into the writings of romantics such as Edgar Allen Poe, the book argues that not only were Arabs and Muslims prominently featured in nineteenth-century literature, but that the differences writers established between figures such as Moors, Bedouins, Turks and Orientals provide proof of the transnational scope of domestic racial politics. Drawing on both English and Arabic language sources, Berman contends that the fluidity and instability of the term Arab as it appears in captivity narratives, travel narratives, imaginative literature, and ethnic literature simultaneously instantiate and undermine definitions of the American nation and American citizenship.
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• Chronology
• Family trees for Pakistani trilogy
• Always a writer : The green dog and Staples's own story
• Shabanu : striking a balance between self and society
• Haveli : a modern tale of Anarkali
• Echoes of the past and heralds of the future in The house of Djinn
• Critical reception of the Pakistani trilogy
• Learning to discriminate : injustice in Dangerous skies
• Dancing a world into existence : Shiva's fire
• Under the persimmon tree and an unlikely pair of stargazers.

This volume examines the six novels and memoir of Suzanne Fisher Staples, including her most famous work: the Pakistani trilogy (Shabanu, Haveli and The House of Djinn). The author considers the predominant themes, characters, and settings of each work, providing background information about the countries, cultures, religions, and art forms that are central to Staples's writing.
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From a crescent moon to a square garden to an octagonal fountain, this breathtaking picture book celebrates the shapes-and traditions-of the Muslim world. Sure to inspire questions and observations about world religions and cultures, Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets is equally at home in a classroom reading circle and on a parent's lap being read to a child.
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• SHADES OF ISLAM 01pre; SHADES OF ISLAM 01ch; SHADES OF ISLAM 02; SHADES OF ISLAM 03; SHADES OF ISLAM 04; SHADES OF ISLAM 05; SHADES OF ISLAM 06glos.

"These poems offer a window onto the sensibility of a modern American Muslim, with unflinching honesty and richly informed compassion. The great humanistic tradition of poetry known in Arabic and other Eastern languages here finds a contemporary English voice, which will be recognized like a lost friend who has unaccountably been rediscovered." Carl W. Ernst, William R. Kenan Junior Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill This dazzling and moving new collection of poems addresses faith, love, politics, and Islam in the twenty-first century. Rafey Habib is professor of English at Rutgers University, New Jersey.
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