Islam Is a Foreign Country : : American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority / / Zareena Grewal.
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 stunnin...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Nation of Nations ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 29 black and white illustrations |
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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
- 1 Islam Is a Foreign Country: Mapping the Global Crisis of Authority
- 2 Islamic Utopias, American Dystopia: Muslim Moral Geographies after the Great Migration
- 3 Imaginary Homelands, American Dreams: Sunni Moral Geographies after 1965
- Part II Tradition Bound
- 4 Retrieving Tradition: Pedagogical Forms and Secular Reforms
- 5 Choosing Tradition: Women Student-Travelers between Resistance and Submission
- 6 Transmitting Tradition: The Constraints of Crisis
- 7 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