Islam Is a Foreign Country : American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority / Zareena Grewal.
2013
E184.M88 G74 2014eb
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Title
Islam Is a Foreign Country : American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority / Zareena Grewal.
Author
Grewal, Zareena, author.
ISBN
9781479800193
Published
New York, NY : New York University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource : 29 black and white illustrations
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9781479800193.001.0001 doi
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E184.M88 G74 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
297.5/70835
Summary
In Islam Is a Foreign Country, Zareena Grewal explores some of the most pressing debates about and among American Muslims: what does it mean to be Muslim and American? Who has the authority to speak for Islam and to lead the stunningly diverse population of American Muslims? Do their ties to the larger Muslim world undermine their efforts to make Islam an American religion?Offering rich insights into these questions and more, Grewal follows the journeys of American Muslim youth who travel in global, underground Islamic networks. Devoutly religious and often politically disaffected, these young men and women are in search of a home for themselves and their tradition. Through their stories, Grewal captures the multiple directions of the global flows of people, practices, and ideas that connect U.S. mosques to the Muslim world. By examining the tension between American Muslims' ambivalence toward the American mainstream and their desire to enter it, Grewal puts contemporary debates about Islam in the context of a long history of American racial and religious exclusions. Probing the competing obligations of American Muslims to the nation and to the umma (the global community of Muslim believers), Islam is a Foreign Country investigates the meaning of American citizenship and the place of Islam in a global age.
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Nation of Nations ; 22
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print 9781479800889
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Unmapping the Muslim World
Part I: The Roots and Routes of Islam in America
Part II: Tradition Bound
Epilogue: American Muslims and the Place of Dissent
Notes
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Unmapping the Muslim World
Part I: The Roots and Routes of Islam in America
Part II: Tradition Bound
Epilogue: American Muslims and the Place of Dissent
Notes
Index
About the Author