Muslims in North America

Thursday, January 9, 2014
Location: Berkley Center third floor conference room Map

The Berkley Center hosted 18 Pakistani Islamic studies scholars for a seminar on Muslims in North America led by Professor Yvonne Haddad. The seminar presented the history of Muslims in North America, focusing on slavery and African-American Islam; Muslim immigration; orientalist and popular representations of Muslims in arts and media; geographical distribution of Muslim ethnicities and sects; varieties of American Muslim art and architecture; American Muslim leaders, scholars, sport, and cultural icons; and the post 9/11 "Islamophobia" movement and responses.

The group took part in the Pakistan Winter Institute, a series of seminars, funded by a US Department of State grant, designed to introduce Pakistani scholars of Islam to theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of Islam used by scholars in US universities, and to promote exchanges between US and Pakistani academic institutions. The Berkley Center also hosted an interfaith dinner for the Pakistani scholars on January 8 with Intersections International.

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About Yvonne Haddad

Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad is Professor of the History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding in Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Haddad's fields of expertise include twentieth-century Islam; intellectual, social and political history in the Arab world; and Islam in North America and the West. Haddad's most recent research focuses on Muslims in the West and Islamic revolutionary movements. She previously taught a class supported through the Berkley Center's Doyle Seminars project. Haddad is author or editor of numerous books, including Becoming American? The Forging of Arab and Muslim Identity in Pluralist America (2011), Muslim Women in America: The Challenge of Islamic Identity Today (2006/2011), Muslim Minorities in the West: Visible and Invisible (2002), and Islam, Gender and Social Change (1998, ed. with John Esposito). She holds a B.A. from Beirut College For Women, MRE from Boston University, M.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Ph.D. from Hartford Seminary.

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