Format:
Online-Ressource (271 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780226049571
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9780226049564
Content:
The events of 9/11 had a profound impact on American society, but they had an even more lasting effect on Muslims living in the United States. Once practically invisible, they suddenly found themselves overexposed. By describing how Islam in America began as a strange cultural object and is gradually sinking into familiarity, Finding Mecca in America illuminates the growing relationship between Islam and American culture as Muslims find a homeland in America. Rich in ethnographic detail, the book is an up-close account of how Islam takes its American shape. In this book, Mucahit Bilici
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Muslim Life and American Forms; Part One: Cultural Settlement; 1. Finding Mecca in America: Muslim Directionality and the Codification of American Space; 2. The English Language and Islam: Genealogy of an Encounter; 3. Homeland Insecurity: How Immigrant Muslims Naturalize America in Islam; Part Two: Citizenship Practices; 4. Awakening Citizenship: Rights Meet Bearers; 5. Seeking Kinship through Abraham: Muslim Interfaith Activism; 6. Funny Jihad: Muslim Comedy Takes Flight; Conclusion: On Appropriation and Inhabitation; Notes
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226922874
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226049564
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bilici, Mucahit, 1973 - Finding Mecca in America Chicago [u.a.] : Univ. of Chicago Press, 2012 ISBN 0226049566
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0226049574
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226049564
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226049571
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
USA
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Islam
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Muslim
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