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Islam Is a Foreign Country - American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority (Hardcover, New)
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Islam Is a Foreign Country - American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority (Hardcover, New)
Series: Nation of Nations
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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. Zareena Grewal is Assistant Professor of
American Studies and Religious Studies at Yale University and
Director for the Center for the Study of American Muslims at the
Institute for Social Policy and Understanding.
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