Book contents
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- General Introduction: What is America and the World?
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Building and Resisting US Empire
- Part II Imperial Structures
- Part III Americans and the World
- Part IV Americans in the World
- 23 The Changing Geography of Mobility, 1820–1940
- 24 The United States and the Greater Caribbean, 1763–1898
- 25 Borderlands and Border Crossings
- 26 The Liberal North Atlantic
- 27 “To Enter America from Africa and Africa from America” during the Nineteenth Century
- 28 Islamic World Encounters
- 29 The American Island Empire: US Expansionism in the Pacific and the Caribbean
- 30 Inter-Imperial Entanglements in the Age of Imperial Globalization
- Index
28 - Islamic World Encounters
from Part IV - Americans in the World
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2021
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- General Introduction: What is America and the World?
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Building and Resisting US Empire
- Part II Imperial Structures
- Part III Americans and the World
- Part IV Americans in the World
- 23 The Changing Geography of Mobility, 1820–1940
- 24 The United States and the Greater Caribbean, 1763–1898
- 25 Borderlands and Border Crossings
- 26 The Liberal North Atlantic
- 27 “To Enter America from Africa and Africa from America” during the Nineteenth Century
- 28 Islamic World Encounters
- 29 The American Island Empire: US Expansionism in the Pacific and the Caribbean
- 30 Inter-Imperial Entanglements in the Age of Imperial Globalization
- Index
Summary
American encounters with the Islamic world began almost as soon as the first colonists arrived in the New World. The first known Muslim to arrive on American shores dates back to 1537, when a Spanish explorer brought his African Muslim slave, Estaban de Dorantes, also known as Esteban the Moor, to what is today Florida and Texas. By the early nineteenth century, Muslim slaves in the United States numbered in the thousands, although their religious beliefs drew scant attention from slaveowners. In contrast, theological beliefs about the Islamic faith played an important role in shaping American interactions with Muslims abroad, beginning with the Barbary Wars in 1805 and extending to American colonial governance of the Philippine Islands after the 1898 Spanish-American War and the arrival of the first Muslim immigrants to the United States.
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- The Cambridge History of America and the World , pp. 669 - 692Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022