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American
Crescent
A MUSLIM CLERIC ON THE POWER
OF HIS FAITH, THE STRUGGLE AGAINST
PREJUDICE, AND THE FUTURE OF
ISLAM AND AMERICA
Imam Hassan Qazwini
Random House New York
Copyright © 2007 by Imam Hassan Qazwini
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random
House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
RANDOM HOUSE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Al-Qazwini, Sayid Hassan.
American crescent : A Muslim cleric on the power of his faith, the struggle
against prejudice, and the future of Islam and America / Imam Hassan
Qazwini
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-4000-6454-0
1. Al-Qazwini, Sayid Hassan. 2. Muslims—United States—Biography.
3. Islam—United States. I. Crawford, Brad. II. Title.
BP80.A5296A68 2007
297.8'2092—dc22
[B]
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
987654321
First Edition
Book design by Carol Malcolm Russo
2007010345
To my teacher, role model, and father,
Ayatollah Sayed Mortadha Qazwini
Preface
ISLAM'S POWER LIES in action. I could not write a book about
Islam without telling the story of Muslims who passionately prac-
tice the faith, and I could not imagine writing about my own life
without telling how Islam has shaped it. Through news reports,
graphic television footage, blogs, and the abstraction that comes
from being on the other side of the world from the events of the
day, "Islam" unfortunately has become a loaded word in America,
synonymous with aggression and anti-western rhetoric. My own
experience as a Muslim raised in the cradle of Shia Islam, guided
through twelve years of seminary study, and schooled in American
sociology has provided a very different understanding, which I have
gained through my lineage, upbringing, and migration to America.
Lineage. My relationship with Islam began with the very ori-
gins of the faith. The Prophet Muhammad, the messenger of Islam,
is my great-great-ancestor through thirty-nine generations. In the
Middle East, where memory is deep, a person is not an individual.
He is one square in a social fabric that stretches to the horizon, and
he connects to that fabric through the common thread of family.
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