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American Islam
The Struggle For The Soul Of A Religion
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | | Suitable Age: | Adults | | Format: | Hardcover | | Length: | 304 pgs | | Dimensions: | 6x 9 in |
| SKU: BDBKENG011 |
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There are as many as six million Muslims in the United States today. Together with Christianity and Judaism, Islam is now an American religion, and the struggles of Muslims to reconcile their intense and demanding faith with our permissive society are the makings of a dramatic new chapter in the American story.
In American Islam, Paul M. Barrett takes readers into Muslim homes, mosques, and private gatherings from West Virginia to Los Angeles, depicting a population of striking variety. In vivid, subtle, artful prose, Barrett tells us seven representative stories of American Muslims in all their stereotype-defying complexity. Here is a black imam with a storefront mosque in Brooklyn who was once known as Jeffrey 12X of the Nation of Islam; here is the daughter of an Indian immigrant family who has sought to open her father's mosque to the full participation of women.Here is a scholar whose message of moderate Islam-distributed world-wide through lectures on cassette tapes-has sparked controversy among his fellow Muslims; here is a tech-savvy graduate student in Idaho whose life grows complicated after the patriot Act is put into effect. Here are immigrant and native-born Muslims, black and white converts, Muslims who are well integrated into the larger society and those who are alienated and extreme in their political views. Here are Muslims who have succeeded in material terms and enriched our hybrid society, and those who have been shunned and hunted in the years since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
American Islam is an intimate and vibrant group portrait of American Muslims today-a book that non-Muslims will learn from and one in which Muslims will recognize themselves
| SKU: BDBKENG011 |
$12.00 |
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