Islam Is a Foreign Country American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority

Name: Islam Is a Foreign Country American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority
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ISBN: 9781479800568

ISBN-10: 1479800562

ISBN-13: 9781479800568

Edition: 2013

Authors: Zareena Grewal

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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,…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 12/2/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 409
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

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.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Unmapping the Muslim World



The Roots and Routes of Islam in America



Islam Is a Foreign Country: Mapping the Global Crisis of Authority



Islamic Utopias, American Dystopia: Muslim Moral Geographies after the Great Migration



Imaginary Homelands, American Dreams: Sunni Moral Geographies after 1965



Tradition Bound



Retrieving Tradition: Pedagogical Forms and Secular Reforms



Choosing Tradition: Women Student-Travelers between Resistance and Submission



Transmitting Tradition: The Constraints of Crisis



Muslim Reformers and the American Media: The Exceptional Umma and Its Emergent Moral Geography


Epilogue: American Muslims and the Place of Dissent


Notes


Index


About the Author