Interpreting Islam in American Schools
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9766928 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan L Douglass (0000-0002-9630-8282, Council on Islamic Education, Fountain Valley, California, corresponding author), Ross E Dunn (San Diego State University) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 588 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 52-72 |
| Publication date | 2003-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716203588001005 |
| OpenAlex | W2014656256 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 5 |
How is Islam taught in American schools? Teaching Islam to young Americans is a relatively recent phenomenon. The Israeli-Arab conflict shaped the contours of the study of Islam with images and stereotypes inherited from the Crusades and Colonialism. Islam has been taught not as an essential ingredient of the World History but through the political conflicts of Israelis and Arabs as well as the American global agenda within which Qaddafi, Hafez al-Asad, and Ayatullah Khomeini emerged as the representatives of Islam. The Muslim population in America grew dramatically in the twentieth century, and curriculum was devised to include Islam without disturbing the unitary narrative of Western Civilization: The textbooks disconnect Islam from the Judeo-Christian tradition even as they emphasize how Islam borrowed from Jewish and Christian scriptures. Textbook writers portrayed Islam in light of the Arab nomadic society and the life of the Prophet of Islam while deliberately downplaying the Abrahamic legacy in Islam
Civilization · Curriculum · Islam · Judaism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Education and Islamic Studies · Gender Studies · History · Jewish Identity and Society · Law · Philosophy · Religious Education and Schools · Religious studies
Pedagogic discourses and imagined communities
Responses to Islam in the Classroom
Sources for a Prehistory of Ethnology in the Islamic World
Please god, don’t let it be Muslims”
The ecosystems perspective in social work
The Benefit of the Doubt or the Underdog Effect
Why Religious Education Matters
Teaching Against Islamophobia
Orientalism(s), world geography textbooks, and temporal paradox
Teachers’ Perspectives on the Education of Muslim Students
Islam in Social Studies Education
The Sunni and Shia Schism
A Challenge for Social Studies Educators
Representations of Islam and Arab Societies in Western Secondary Textbooks
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,7 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2024 (19) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |