John Ghazvinian is Associate Director of the Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of Children of the Revolution: Iran and America since 1600 (2018).Arthur Mitchell Fraas is Senior Curator of Special Collections at the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, USA.

• List of ImagesList of contributorsIntroductionPart One: Islam and the Making of the Early American Republic1. Benjamin Franklin, Islam and the Abolition of Slavery (Denise Spellberg University of Texas at Austin, USA)2. The Greek War of Independence and the Ideological Manifestations ofthe Clash of Civilizations Theory in the United States, 1821-1830, Karine Walther (Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Qatar)Part II: The Muslim Experience in the Americas3. Nicholas Said’s America: Islam, the Civil War, and the Emergence of AfricanAmerican Narrative, Ira Dworkin (Texas A&M University, USA)4. Transcending Transcendentalism: An Islam Surface Reading of African Muslim Slave Narratives in Antebellum America, Zeinab McHeimech (Western University, Canada)5. Crossing Oceans, Transgressing Boundaries: Incorporating Muslims andMoriscos into Histories of Colonial Spanish America, Karoline Cook (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)Part III: Muslim Worlds in the American Imaginary6. ‘An Unwelcome Present’: Simulation and Simulacra in the UnlikelyFriendship of General Lew Wallace and Sultan Abdülhamit II, Bill Hunt (Barton College, USA)7. The Lost Tribes of the Afghans: Religious Mobility andEntanglement in Narratives of Afghan Origins, William E B Sherman (UNC Charlotte, USA)8. Imagining Empire: Islamic India in Nineteenth-Century US Print Culture, Susan Ryan (University of Louisville, USA)Part IV: Islam and American Empire: The Case of the Philippines9. Subjugating the Sultan of Sulu: American Imperial Negotiations in theMuslim Philippines, Timothy Marr (University of North Carolina, USA)10. Native Americans, the Ottoman Empire, and Global Narratives of Islamin the US Colonial Philippines, 1900-1914, Joshua Gedacht (Rowan University, USA)11. An Ottoman Notable in America in 1915-1916: Sayyid Wajihal-Kilani of Nazareth, William G Clarence-Smith (SOAS, University of London, UK)Epilogue: The Global History of American and Muslim Worlds, Heather J Sharkey (University of Pennsylvania, USA)BibliographyIndex

Fresh and topical. This collection on various aspects of the US-Islam relationship goes back to the beginning, and looks at the phenomenon from very different and yet ultimately complementary angles.