A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order

Kambiz GhaneaBassiri's history of Muslim presence in the Americas, running from enslaved West African Muslims brought before abolition through twentieth century immigration and domestic conversion movements into a demographically significant population across the United States and Canada. GhaneaBassiri is a scholar of religion at Reed College, and this Cambridge University Press monograph is a standard scholarly history of the subject. Use it for the dated arc of Muslim presence in the Americas; a claim about a specific contemporary American Muslim community's practice needs a source closer to that community.