| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russell Webb. By Umar F. Abd-Allah. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xii, 388 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-19-518728-1.)

This biography is the first in-depth account of the life of Alexander Russell Webb, born in 1846 to Presbyterian parents from Hudson, New York, who converted to Islam while serving as a consul to the Philippines in 1888. After lecturing on his new faith in Burma and India in 1892, Webb returned to deliver a famous defense of Islam at the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago. Webb was a "pioneering herald" of Islam in the United States who courageously established the first Muslim mission and mosque in New York City, founded the Islamic press in the United States, and was appointed Honorary Consul of New York by the Ottoman government late in life (p. 17).

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