Muslim marriages in America: Reflecting new identities

Muslim World

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 557-574

  Al Johar, Denise ^a  

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EID: 43249104959     PISSN: 00274909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-1913.2005.00111.x     Document Type: Review

References (24)

1. Garbi Schmidt, American Medina: A Study of the Sunni Muslim Immigrant Communities in Chicago (Lund, Sweden: University of Lund, 1998), 25
2. Mehr is the groom's prenuptial agreement to give money or gifts to the bride. South Asians and Persians say mehr, Arabs say mahar; and the Old Testament and the Torah describe a marriage payment called mohar. This article considers only mate selection
3. Karen Leonard, "Construction of Identity in Diaspora: Emigrants from Hyderabad, India," in The Expanding Landscape: South Asians and the Diaspora, ed. Carla Petievich (New Delhi: Manohar, 1999)
4. For the first, Raymond B Williams, Religions of Immigrants from India and Pakistan: New Threads in the American Tapestry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988); for the second, Haseeb Abdali, charter board member of the Houston chapter of Dawanet, an Islamic outreach program. His compilation of Muslim demographics is partly based on City of Houston statistics
5. http://www.ISGH.org. There are non-immigrant Sunni mosques in Houston. Mosques associated with Warith Deen Mohammed are primarily African-American and Sunni in orientation. Non-Sunni mosques include several associated with the Nation of Islam, and these are numbered; For example, in Houston there is Mohammed's Mosque #45. There are also Shia mosques and Aga Khani mosques or centers, the latter called jamatkhanas
6. Haseeb Abdali, charter board member of the Houston chapter of Dawanet, an Islamic outreach program, personal communication. He also commented "most Muslims that come here [to the U.S.] do not practice."
7. Barbara Bilge, "Turkish-American Patterns of Intermarriage" in Family and Gender Among American Muslims: Issues Facing Middle Eastern Immigrants and Their Descendants, eds. B. C. Aswad and B. Bilge (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996)
8. Elise Goldwasser, "Economic Security and Muslim Identity: A Study of the Immigrant Community in Durham, North Carolina," in Muslims on the Americanization Path ? eds. Y. Y. Haddad and J. L. Esposito (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
9. "Transmission of Turkish heritage and identity to offspring has been most successful among the affluent families, who have the money to visit Turkey often and show their children its most pleasant aspects." Bilge, "Turkish-American Patterns of Intermarriage," 101
10. Goldwasser, "Economic Security and Muslim Identity," 305
11. Goldwasser, "Economic Security and Muslim Identity," 312
12. Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, "The Dynamics of Islamic Identity in North America," in Muslims on the Americanization Path? eds. Y. Y. Haddad and J. L. Esposito (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 22-23
13. Haddad, "The Dynamics of Islamic Identity in North America," 23
14. Nimat Barazangi, "Parents and Youth: Perceiving and Practicing Islam in North America," in Family and Gender Among American Muslims: Issues Facing Middle Eastern Immigrants and Their Descendants, eds. Barbara C. Aswad and Barbara Bilge (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996), 140
15. Haddad, "The Dynamics of Islamic Identity in North America," 29
16. Charlene Joyce Eisenlohr, "Adolescent Arab Girls in an American High School" in Family and Gender Among American Muslims: Issues Facing Middle Eastern Immigrants and Their Descendants, eds. B. C. Aswad and B. Bilge (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996), 258
17. Schmidt, American Medina, 100-101
18. Nadine Naber, paper given at Muslim Identities in North America Conference at UC Irvine, 2000
19. C. Swanson, "Ethnicity, Conflict, and Role Conflict," in Family and Gender Among American Muslims: Issues Facing Middle Eastern Immigrants and Their Descendants, in eds. B. C. Aswad and B. Bilge (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996), 243
20. Andrew Shyrock, "Kinship and Community in Arab Detroit," in Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream, eds. Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shyrock (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000), 584
21. Andrew Shyrock and Nabeel Abraham, "On Margins and Mainstreams," in Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream, eds. Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock, (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000), 16
22. Andrew Shryock, remarks as discussed at Muslim Identities in North America Conference at UC Irvine, 2000
23. Leonard, "Construction of Identity in Diaspora," 51
24. Shryock, "Kinship and Community in Arab Detroit," 576