The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism

Introduction: imagining Ishmael: introducing American Islamicism 1. Islamicism and counterdespotism in early national cultural expression 2. 'Drying up the Euphrates': Muslims, millennialism, and early American missionary enterprise 3. Antebellum Islamicism and the transnational crusade of antislavery and temperance reform 4. 'Turkey is in our midst': Mormonism as an American 'Islam' 5. American Ishmael: Herman Melville's literary Islamicism Conclusion: American Howadjis: the gendered pageantry of mid-nineteenth-century Islamicism.