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The Library of Congress is a famous library housing it is rich collections in three buildings – James Madison Memorial Building, John Adams Building and Thomas Jefferson Building. It is one of the oldest federal foundations as well as the US Congress’s exploration library. Consisting of millions of manuscripts, maps, books, photographs and recordings, this is the world’s biggest library collection and is a priceless source of the American history. The library operations are managed by the administrative section.
Established in the Capitol Building in the year 1800, the library facilitated exploration work conducted by the Congress. President John Adams approved the building and the primary collections, worth $5000, consisted of law books sourced from England.
The contribution of Jefferson was priceless for the duration of the formative years wherein he expeditiously regulated the operations and put in various important processes in place. The early collection was destroyed in the year 1814 when the Capitol Building was invaded and the British soldiers set it on fire.
Thomas Jefferson contributed his personal collection of books that he had assembled over a amount of time of 50 years on dissimilar subjects like literature, science and philosophy. This collection included various alien language books. He was salaried more than $20,000 for a collection of more than 6,450 books.
Later, Charles Coffin Jewett (Librarian of the Smithsonian Institution) and Joseph Henry (Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) proposed two dissimilar approaches for the growth of this library. This was rather a tumultuous amount of time as Charles wanted the Smithsonian Institution to become the official library of the US, whereas Joseph wanted to promote the Library of Congress as the national library of the country. Joseph was successful in dismissing Charles and transposed the precious collection of more than 40,000 volumes from Smithsonian Institution to the Library of Congress.
In the year 1864, Ainsworth Rand Spofford took over as the librarian and believed in the doctrine of Jefferson which dealt with the universality conception and took attempts to fetch in respective collections of books from all subjects. Due to his efforts, the library became a national institution.
Later, Spofford made it compulsory for the applicants of the US copyrights to send 2 copies of their work to the library. Soon, there was space crunch as the library was altogether flooded with maps, music, prints, books and photographs amid other rich collections due to which a new building was constructed in Italian Renaissance style and came to be known as the Thomas Jefferson Building.
Encyclopedia Muslim American History Library American
Muslims started out arriving in the New World long before the rise of the Atlantic slave trade. The primary arrivals date to the turn of the sixteenth century when European explorers and colonists crossed the Atlantic in search of new horizons and selling routes. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri’s arousing and attention holding book traces the history of Muslims in the United States and their dissimilar waves of immigration and conversion throughout five centuries, through colonial and antebellum America, through world wars and civil rights struggles, to the contemporary era. The book tells the ofttimes deeply moving stories of person Muslims and their lives as immigrants and citizens within the wide context of the American religious experience, showing how that experience has been integral to the evolution of American Muslim originations and practices. This is a distinguishable and intellectual portrayal of a diverse religious community and it is kinship with America. It will serve as a strong antidote to the current politicized dichotomy among Islam and the West, which has come to dominate the study of Muslims in America and further afield.
- Amazon Sales Rank: #95836 in Books
- Published on: 2010-04-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .90″ h x 6.00″ w x 9.00″ l, 1.38 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 456 pages
| Review”Professor GhaneaBassiri does an splendid job, and his encyclopedic, erudite, and goal to be attained study deserves to be read widely, and it is arguments is worthy of to be taken gravely by others in the field.” –Journal of Church and State
“…this scholarly book is a worthful and welcome contribution to the historical study of Islam in the West in general, and the United States in particular….The book is highly recommended, for it serves specialists and non-specialists alike.” –Digest of Middle East Studies
“Of all the books underneath review, GhaneaBassiri’s is the most self-conscious and stringent in it is methodology.” -Bruce Lawrence, Middle East Journal
“GhaneaBassiri modestly pens not The History of Islam in America, but A History of Islam in America splendidly.” –Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
“This book offers a much necessitated and richly elaborate overview of the story of Islam and Muslims on this continent from earliest times to the present. An valuable work.” -Leila Ahmed, Harvard Divinity School
“This remarkable book draws on a wide range of important and secondary roots to fabricate a new synthesis. It deepens our appreciation of Islam’s internal diversity, reveals numerous of the dissimilar ways that Muslim identity has been improvised in inter-religious exchanges in America, and debunks stereotypes in regards to what it means to be Muslim and American. This is a careful work of scholarship and a arousing and attention holding narrative history.” — Christopher G. White, Assistant Professor of Religion in America, Vassar College
“A History of Islam in America is a major step forward in understanding the encounters and exchanges among Muslims and non-Muslims in the US. This richly documented and arousing and attention holding analysis provides a powerful challenge to stereotypes that exclude Islam from the orbit of ‘the West.’ — Carl W. Ernst, William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“This book is the most comprehensive historical monograph yet written in regards to Islam in the United States.” -Edward E. Curtis, Journal of American History
“…this scholarly book is a priceless and welcome contribution to the historical study of Islam in the West in general, and the United States in particular. The book’s core thesis is the complexity and diversity of American Muslims’ experience in the new world.The book is highly recommended,for it serves specialists and non-specialists alike.” -Digest of Middle East Studies
“Professor GhaneaBassiri does an splendid job, and his encyclopedic, erudite, and goal to be attained study deserves to be read widely, and it is arguments is worthy of to be taken seriously by others in the field.” -Journal of Church and State
“GhaneaBassiri modestly pens not The History of Islam in America, but A History of Islam in America splendidly.” -Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
“Of all the books underneath review, GhaneaBassiri’s is the most self-conscious and stringent in it is methodology.” -Middle East Journal
About the AuthorKambiz GhaneaBassiri is Associate Professor of Religion and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Competing Visions of Islam in the United States: A Study of Los Angeles and has served on the editorial board of The Encyclopedia of Islam in the United States and the Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
 Excellent Addition to the Scholarly Literature on Islam in America
By Edgar Hopida
Professor Kambiz GhaneaBassiri’s work is a welcomed addition to the growing scholarly literature on Islam in America.
What puts this apart from other works is his insistence in breaking away from the typical dichotomy of “Islam vs the West, ” as if these two categories are mutually exclusive from each other. He argues this categorization and comparison is reminscent of Orientalism’s comparison of “Islam vs. European Modernism.”
The author shows the development of Islam in America through the lense of American history itself: dealing with the changing aspects of race, religious pluralism, and national identity.
It is an interesting read and will in my opinion, help change the views about Islam and Muslims in America.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
 Decent
By ZANZIBAR
This book provides further research on figures such as Inyat Khan, Job ben Solomon,Alexander Russell Webb, Duse M Ali, the controversial Satti Majid etc. It reveals Duse’s involvement as Exalted Ruler of the Order of Elks and Rosicrucianism through his European wife. It also delves into his relationship with the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam and serving as a bridge between Ahmadiyya & the U.N.I.A ORGS, there are some very interesting Ahmadiyya photographs. Duse himself studied under one Khwajah Kamel-ud-Din in Great Britain.Duse also associated with known 96degree Mason and Shriner Dr. Abdul Hamid of Kartoum Egypt. The common nexus of these groups was Detroit MI in the early to mid 1920s. In the 1950s many Jazz musicians converted to Islam via the Ahmadiyya (such as Ahmad Jamal, Art Blakely and McCoy Tyner).
The author makes the Masonic connections between Job Ben Solomon and the craft as well as the NOI, MST and UNIA; which I believe were largely “borrowed” from some “black” authors works from early 2005 without proper recognition or referencing (especially the constant use of the tell tale phrase [rise]). The author also gives the reader info on various Sufi orders pretty successfully. Overall not bad.
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