American Islam: Growing Up Muslim in America

by Richard Wormser

Book Overview

Today, an estimated four to six million Muslims live in the United States. Yet Islam is still one of the most misunderstood and maligned religions in this country. Nes coverage of recent events such... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802783430
• ISBN13: 9780802783431
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Walker & Company
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Good Information on Muslim American Beliefs

While I don't agree with everything in this book, I can't deny it has some really good information in it and tells the story from another's point of view. I don't agree that all Muslim values coorespond with what have been traditional American values but people have a right to their religion and to live here in harmony and peace. This book gives many Americans something to think about about and appreciate. It is mainly the story of people who feel abused in the past or are being abused in the present. Life should be better for them and more fair. Right now, it isn't.

Richard Wormser, Excellent Job!

Richard Wormser's American Islam does an excellent job in explaining just what this important world religion is all about. He does it in an easy to understand manner without boring the reader with unimportant details. Wormser explains the early history of Islam in the Arabian peninsula and the USA, how Americans Muslims have adjusted in Post-9-11 America, and presents Islam from a Muslim teenager's perspective, bringing Islam into a today's context-something that his contemporaries have failed to pull off.In the second part of American Islam, Wormser discusses issues and problems concerning African-American Muslims, who make up the largest number of converts in America, and in an unprecedented heroic step, in Chapter 5 he narrates an issue that no Imam in America will tackle-discrimination against African-American Muslim males in love & marriage by other Muslims.For that alone, Wormser and American Islam deserves a Pulitzer. Five stars Richard Wormser on a job well done!