Islam, an American religion / Nadia Marzouki ; translated by C. Jon Delogu.
2017
BP67.U6 M3713 2017eb
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Title
Islam, an American religion / Nadia Marzouki ; translated by C. Jon Delogu.
Author
Marzouki, Nadia, author.
Uniform Title
Islam, une religion américaine? English
ISBN
9780231543927 (electronic book)
0231543921 (electronic book)
9780231176804
0231543921 (electronic book)
9780231176804
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Language
English
Language Note
Translated from the French.
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages).
Other Standard Identifiers
10.7312/marz17680 doi
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BP67.U6 M3713 2017eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.6/97
Summary
The practice of Islam in the United States, spanning more than a century, has a contentious history that has escalated over the past decade. Debates have raged over Islam's articles of faith, especially within an American context, and its practitioners' intent. Some characterize these arguments as a clash between a white, evangelical majority and a Muslim minority, or they see it as evidence of the divide between tolerant liberals and close-minded conservatives. Casting this conflict as a generic struggle between us and them, Nadia Marzouki argues, is a gross oversimplification of Islam's development in America. In Islam: An American Religion, Marzouki investigates how Islam is lived, how it has changed, and how its identity has overlapped with American foreign policy toward the Muslim world. Revisiting the uproar over the construction of mosques, the perceived threat of encroaching Shar'ia law, and the overseas promotion of America's secular democratic traditions, Marzouki finds that public tensions over Islam in the United States reflect more of the West's ambivalence toward freedom of speech and political culture than the religion's purported agenda. Her unbiased portrait highlights American Islam's open outlook, which embodies and advances the core principles of the American political project. -- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Delogu, Christopher Jon, translator.
Series
Religion, culture, and public life.
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Table of Contents
Foreword / Olivier Roy
Introduction to the American edition: A Euro-American debate over Islam
Muslim Americans : a religious minority like any other ?
The mosque controversies : moral offense and religious liberty
The anti-Sharia movement
The face of anti-Muslim populism
Forcing the First Amendment : American exporting of religious freedom.
Introduction to the American edition: A Euro-American debate over Islam
Muslim Americans : a religious minority like any other ?
The mosque controversies : moral offense and religious liberty
The anti-Sharia movement
The face of anti-Muslim populism
Forcing the First Amendment : American exporting of religious freedom.