By Juliane Hammer,Omid Safi

The Cambridge significant other to American Islam bargains a scholarly evaluate of the country of analysis on American Muslims and American Islam. The booklet provides the reader with a finished dialogue of the debates, demanding situations and possibilities that American Muslims have confronted via centuries of yank historical past. This quantity additionally covers the artistic ways that American Muslims have replied to the myriad critical demanding situations that they have got confronted and proceed to stand in developing a spiritual praxis and intricate identities which are grounded in either a common culture and the particularities in their neighborhood contexts. The ebook introduces the reader to a few of the various features of the lives of yankee Muslims that could merely be understood of their interactions with Islam's entanglement within the American experiment.

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