Islam is a foreign country : American Muslims and the global crisis of authority / Zareena Grewal.
Islam is a foreign country : American Muslims and the global crisis of authority / Zareena Grewal.
Islam is a foreign country : American Muslims and the global crisis of authority / Zareena Grewal.
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New York : New York University Press, [2014]
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G 2015/1178
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English
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xiv, 395 pages ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: unmapping the Muslim world -- 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 -- Retrieving tradition...
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New York : New York University Press, [2014]
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New York (State)
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[2014]
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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...
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Islam is a foreign country : American Muslims and the global crisis of authority / Zareena Grewal.
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Nation of newcomers: immigrant history as American history.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2015/1178
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74VKO4LXwEK3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKO4LXwEK3
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1479800562 (pb)
9781479800889 (hardback)
1479800880 (hardback)
9781479800568 (pb)
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297.5/70835
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991022622079702626
