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Author Bilici, Mucahit, 1973-

Title Finding Mecca in America : How Islam is becoming an American religion / Mucahit Bilici.

Publication Info. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Title from PDF title page (viewed Dec. 4, 2012).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : Muslim life and American forms -- Cultural settlement. Finding Mecca in America : Muslim directionality and the codification of American space ; The English language and Islam : genealogy of an encounter ; Homeland insecurity : how immigrant Muslims naturalize America in Islam -- Citizenship practices. Awakening citizenship : rights meet their bearers ; Seeking kinship through Abraham : Muslim interfaith activism ; Funny jihad : Muslim comedy takes flight -- Conclusion : on appropriation and inhabitation.
Summary 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.
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Subject Muslims -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Muslims.
United States.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Islam -- United States.
Islam.
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title How Islam is becoming an American religion
Other Form: Print version: 9780226049564 (OCoLC)775664180
ISBN 9780226922874 (electronic book)
0226922871 (electronic book)
9780226049564 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0226049566 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780226049571 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0226049574 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9781283742467 (MyiLibrary)
1283742462 (MyiLibrary)
Standard No. 40021710501