A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russell WebbOxford University Press, 2006 M09 21 - 400 páginas Conflicts and controversies at home and abroad have led Americans to focus on Islam more than ever before. In addition, more and more of their neighbors, colleagues, and friends are Muslims. While much has been written about contemporary American Islam and pioneering studies have appeared on Muslim slaves in the antebellum period, comparatively little is known about Islam in Victorian America. This biography of Alexander Russell Webb, one of the earliest American Muslims to achieve public renown, seeks to fill this gap. Webb was a central figure of American Islam during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A native of the Hudson Valley, he was a journalist, editor, and civil servant. Raised a Presbyterian, Webb early on began to cultivate an interest in other religions and became particularly fascinated by Islam. While serving as U.S. consul to the Philippines in 1887, he took a greater interest in the faith and embraced it in 1888, one of the first Americans known to have done so. Within a few years, he began corresponding with important Muslims in India. Webb became an enthusiastic propagator of the faith, founding the first Islamic institution in the United States: the American Mission. He wrote numerous books intended to introduce Islam to Americans, started the first Islamic press in the United States, published a journal entitled The Moslem World, and served as the representative of Islam at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago. In 1901, he was appointed Honorary Turkish Consul General in New York and was invited to Turkey, where he received two Ottoman medals of merits. In this first-ever biography of Webb, Umar F. Abd-Allah examines Webb's life and uses it as a window through which to explore the early history of Islam in America. Except for his adopted faith, every aspect of Webb's life was, as Abd-Allah shows, quintessentially characteristic of his place and time. It was because he was so typically American that he was able to serve as Islam's ambassador to America (and vice versa). As America's Muslim community grows and becomes more visible, Webb's life and the virtues he championed - pluralism, liberalism, universal humanity, and a sense of civic and political responsibility - exemplify what it means to be an American Muslim. |
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... cultural history. The parliament set out to foster religious pluralism to a degree largely unprecedented in the American experience. It captivated enthusiastic audiences with lectures on the world's major religious traditions. For the ...
... cultural history. The parliament set out to foster religious pluralism to a degree largely unprecedented in the American experience. It captivated enthusiastic audiences with lectures on the world's major religious traditions. For the ...
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... cultural ethos of nineteenth-century New York. After the Civil War, Webb made his way west to Chicago, established a jewelry business, but lost everything in the Great Fire of 1871. Although his home was not in the fire's path, Webb's ...
... cultural ethos of nineteenth-century New York. After the Civil War, Webb made his way west to Chicago, established a jewelry business, but lost everything in the Great Fire of 1871. Although his home was not in the fire's path, Webb's ...
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... cultures, but looks were indeed one of several Victorian preoccupations. ''Phrenology,'' the study of facial features for signs of mental ability and character, was a widely accepted popular ''science.'' Modern American culture tends to ...
... cultures, but looks were indeed one of several Victorian preoccupations. ''Phrenology,'' the study of facial features for signs of mental ability and character, was a widely accepted popular ''science.'' Modern American culture tends to ...
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... Cultural Developments 1846: Webb's birth. 1864: Webb enrolls in Claverack College. 1869: Webb goes to Chicago. 1870: Webb marries Laura Conger. 1871: Webb's business burned out in Chicago Fire. 1871: Laura Conger disappears from records ...
... Cultural Developments 1846: Webb's birth. 1864: Webb enrolls in Claverack College. 1869: Webb goes to Chicago. 1870: Webb marries Laura Conger. 1871: Webb's business burned out in Chicago Fire. 1871: Laura Conger disappears from records ...
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... cultural history. But his public appearances on Islam's behalf extended far beyond the parliament, and he evinced a readiness to travel widely throughout the country to lecture on his faith. Like many Victorians, Webb had a preference ...
... cultural history. But his public appearances on Islam's behalf extended far beyond the parliament, and he evinced a readiness to travel widely throughout the country to lecture on his faith. Like many Victorians, Webb had a preference ...
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3 Webbs Journey to Islam | 47 |
4 Go West Young Man | 81 |
5 Diplomatic Post in the Orient | 103 |
6 Passage to India | 123 |
7 Manhattan Beginnings | 159 |
8 Getting Out the Word | 181 |
9 Chicago Worlds Fair and First Parliament of Religions | 211 |
10 Mission Runs Aground and Webbs Final Years | 245 |
Webbs Legacy | 271 |
Notes | 281 |
Bibliography | 345 |
Index | 365 |
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