Finding Mecca in America
Subtitle: American Muslims and cultural citizenship
By: Mucahit Bilici
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780226049564; 9780226049571
Subjects: Social conditions; Muslims; Islam
Description: By describing how Islam in America began as a strange cultural object and is gradually sinking into familiarity, this book illuminates the growing relationship between Islam and American culture as Musliims find a homeland in America.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Muslim life and American forms; title: 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; title: Citizenship practices. Awakening citizenship : rights meet their bearers ; Seeking kinship through Abraham : Muslim interfaith activism ; Funny jihad : Muslim comedy takes flight; title: Conclusion : on appropriation and inhabitation.