... Century . By Weir David . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press . 2011 . x , 304 pp. Cloth , $80.00 ; paper , $26.95 . American Arabesque: Arabs, Islam, and the Nineteenth-Century Imaginary . By Berman Jacob Rama . New York : New York Univ. Press 2012 . xiv , 269 pp...

..., religiously motivated group of individuals—an Emerson of the terror cell. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Michael ​ Emersonian Terrorism: John Brown, Islam, Ziser and Postsecular Violence But let us honestly state the facts. Our America has a bad...

...Christopher Trigg Abstract This article reconsiders the legacy of American Puritanism in the context of the current controversy around “radical Islam.” The rise of Salafi jihadism has emboldened those who maintain that Islam is incompatible with Western secularity. Liberal responses to this claim...

...Kenyon Gradert The Islamic Lineage of American Literary Culture: Muslim Sources from the Revolution to Reconstruction . By Jeffrey Einboden . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2016 . xv, 216 pp. Cloth, $ 87.00 ; e-book available. Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic...

..., Kahf uses the formal strategies of the bildungsroman to contest the moral superiority of secular feminism and to assert an Islamic feminism that works in tandem with American identity. She situates her protagonist’s ultimate independence from the family fold, patriarchal Islam, and mainstream US...

...Daniel Worden This essay charts how two important journalists, Alex Haley and Hunter S. Thompson, represent elements of the American counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s, especially in their influential writings about the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X, the Chicana/o movement, and drug culture...

... of Robert Montgomery Bird’s The Gladiator (1831), and thus it contained an implicit threat of collective violence should working-class speech be curtailed. Moreover, Forrest’s close friendship with abolitionist William Leggett and quotation of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Queen Mab and Revolt of Islam (among...

... years in Barbary captivity, “and the papers they could not read and Mediterranean pass we had none.”1 With this terse assessment of national nonrecognition and the international legal jeopardy it occasioned, the American na- tion’s political relationship with the Islamic world opened its first...

... of women writers.2 Even the recent work of Timothy Marr, who draws attention to the complexities of religion and race, disregards women’s appropriations of Islam.3 Marr’s con- tribution compliments an ongoing masculinist tradition of U.S.–Holy Land study.4 This body of scholarship recovers...

...Peter Coviello; Jared Hickman © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. References Asad Talal . 2003 . Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity...

... to what figures like Occom and his contemporary Phillis Wheatley, a poetic prodigy and African slave, have to tell us about the racial and cultural inflections of colonial Puritanism. Christopher Trigg’s essay, “Islam, Puritanism, and Secular Time,” makes several notable moves that we see across...

... Univ. Press. 2011. xi, 167 pp. Cloth, $44.95; CD, $14.95. American Orient: Imagining the East from the Colonial Era through the Twentieth Century. By David Weir. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2011. x, 304 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $26.95. American Arabesque: Arabs, Islam...

... the Colonial Era through the Twentieth Century. By David Weir. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2011. x, 304 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $26.95. American Arabesque: Arabs, Islam, and the Nineteenth-Century Imaginary. By Jacob Rama Berman. New York: New York Univ. Press 2012. xiv, 269 pp. Cloth...

.... Cloth, $44.95; CD, $14.95. American Orient: Imagining the East from the Colonial Era through the Twentieth Century. By David Weir. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2011. x, 304 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $26.95. American Arabesque: Arabs, Islam, and the Nineteenth-Century Imaginary...

..., $44.95; CD, $14.95. American Orient: Imagining the East from the Colonial Era through the Twentieth Century. By David Weir. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2011. x, 304 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $26.95. American Arabesque: Arabs, Islam, and the Nineteenth-Century Imaginary. By Jacob Rama...

.... Cloth, $44.95; CD, $14.95. American Orient: Imagining the East from the Colonial Era through the Twentieth Century. By David Weir. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2011. x, 304 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $26.95. American Arabesque: Arabs, Islam, and the Nineteenth-Century Imaginary...

.... 2011. x, 304 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $26.95. American Arabesque: Arabs, Islam, and the Nineteenth-Century Imaginary. By Jacob Rama Berman. New York: New York Univ. Press 2012. xiv, 269 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $23.00. Columbus intended to travel west and arrive in what is now called the “Far...

... pp. Cloth, $44.95; CD, $14.95. American Orient: Imagining the East from the Colonial Era through the Twentieth Century. By David Weir. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2011. x, 304 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $26.95. American Arabesque: Arabs, Islam, and the Nineteenth-Century Imaginary...

... mention was awarded to Michael Ziser, University of California, Davis, for “Emersonian Terrorism: John Brown, Islam, and Postsecular Violence” ( June 2010, 333–60). Members of the judging committee were Kirsten Silva Gruesz, University of California, Santa Cruz (Chair); Colleen Glenney Boggs...

... in much of Africa are rarely absolute due to traditions of ongoing migration by Islamic scholars. Simply put, the nation and the state, as well as the expressive forms that emerge from these formations, function differently in Said s homeland of Borno than in Europe or North America. Said s insistent...