CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I: Da'wah in Islam: From East to West -- 1. Da'wah in the East: The Expansion of Islam from the First to the Twelfth Century A.D. -- 2. Da'wah in the West: The Arrival of Muslims in North America -- II: Toward an Islamic Pietism -- 3. External-Institutional Versus Internal-Personal: Fundamental Strategies of Religious Proselytization -- 4. Hasan al-Banna' and Abul A'la MawdudT: Pioneers of Modern Islamic Pietism -- 5. Khurram Murad: Contextualization of the Islamic Movement for the Western Audience -- III: The Institutionalization of Da'wah in Western Societies -- 6. "Paramosque" Structures and Their Development -- 7. Paramosque Strategies and Methodologies -- 8. Contemporary Apologetics: The Literature of Proselytization -- IV: The Dynamics of Conversion to Islam -- 9. Religious Conversion: The Traditional Western Paradigm -- 10. Conversion to Islam -- CONCLUSION: THE FUTURE OF DA'WAH IN THE WEST -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.