Search Results - "American Muslim"
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In defense of Islam: American Muslim women write back
Published 2009“…There is no definite or exact number given afthe American Muslim population. One source says American Muslims make between 2.8 and 3.5 million of United States population although earlier claims were said to be between 5 million and 8 million (http://www.islamlOl.com/history/population2_usa.html. …”
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Muslim revert narrative and American gaze post 9/11 in Jamilah Kolocotronis' Rebounding
Published 2017“…Kolocotronis, a Caucasian American Muslim revert whose novels in the Echoes Series highlight the American Muslim revert’s personal, interpersonal and multicultural complexities of living in post-9/11 America. …”
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Disentangling religion and culture: americanizing Islam as the price of assimilation
Published 2013“…This essay is an exploration into the social inevitabilities of culture shifts within the American Muslim community’s self-understanding of their faith. …”
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Interview with Umm Zakiyyah
Published 2018“…Umm Zakiyyah is one of the most prominent African-American Muslim writers writing about Muslims and Islam in the post-9/11 period. …”
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Negotiating liminal identities in Mohja Kahf's The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
Published 2013“…This paper challenges the thought that the term ‘Muslim woman’ connotes submissive or backward and is in need of rescue by the West through a literary analysis of the work by Mohja Kahf (b.1967), a leading contemporary Arab-American Muslim woman writer. In her novel, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (2006), Kahf focuses on the oppressive and discriminatory practices Muslim women encounter when wearing the hijab or veil where the main character and narrator experiences a type of identity split, or fragmentation, when assimilating into mainstream American culture. …”
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Mumarasat al-siyasah al-shar'iyah 'inda al-aqaliyat al-Muslimah : Majlis al-'Alaqat al-Islamiyah al-Amarikiyah namudhajan = The practice of siasah syar'iyyah among Muslim minority...
Published 2010“…For instance, participation of the American Muslim in the United States military service as well as his participation in elections. …”
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Negotiating Muslim women’s rights and identity in American diaspora space: an Islamic feminist study of Kahf’s the girl in the tangerine scarf
Published 2018“…Despite the difficulties and obstacles of being regarded as an “other” in her adopted homeland, Khadra Shamy, the protagonist in Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, chooses to maintain her Islamic identity with a new interpretation of her faith while attempting to build a hybrid identity as an American Muslim. The narrative implies that not all Muslims interpret their religion in the same way and that Muslims identify themselves with Islam to differing degrees. …”
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A Foucauldian Theory of American Islamophobia
Published 2016“…I suggest that a new evaluation of Agamben (1998) should be undertaken to account for the renewed racialization of and discrimination towards American Muslims.…”
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