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 scovering-muslim-american-past/
SUMMARY:ISP Lecture. “Old Islam in Detroit: Rediscovering the Muslim Amer
 ican Past.”
DESCRIPTION:Islam is portrayed as a religion of immigrants\, converts\, and
  cultural outsiders\, yet Muslims have been part of American society since
  the colonial era. Detroit is home to several of the nation’s oldest\, m
 ost diverse Muslim communities. In the early 1900s\, there were thousands 
 of Muslims in Detroit. Most came from Eastern Europe\, the Ottoman Empire\
 , and British India. In 1921\, they built the nation’s first mosque in H
 ighland Park\, and by the 1930s\, new Islam-oriented movements like the Na
 tion of Islam had taken root among African Americans. When U.S. immigratio
 n laws were liberalized in 1965\, new immigrants and new African American 
 converts rapidly became the majority of U.S. Muslims. For them\, Detroit
 ’s old Muslims and their mosques seemed oddly Americanized\, even unorth
 odox.\n\nIn this lecture\, Howell will explore the rise of Detroit’s ear
 liest Muslim communities and discuss the culture wars and doctrinal debate
 s that ensued as these populations confronted Muslim newcomers who did not
  understand their manner of worship or the American identities they had cr
 eated. Looking closely at this historical encounter\, this talk will illus
 trate how Islam has become American in the past and how the anxieties many
  new Muslim Americans and non-Muslims feel about the place of Islam in Ame
 rican society today are not inevitable\, but are part of a dynamic process
  of political and religious change that is still unfolding.
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CATEGORIES:Lecture
LOCATION:International Institute\, 1080 South University Avenue\, Ann Arbor
 \, MI\, United States
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