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Islam Is a Foreign Country - American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority (Paperback)
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Islam Is a Foreign Country - American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority (Paperback)
Series: Nation of Nations
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Considers the question: what does it mean to be Muslim and
American? 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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