Muslim American City - by Alisa Perkins (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>""Muslim American City" explores gender and religion in Metro Detroit"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Explores how Muslim Americans test the boundaries of American pluralism</b> <p/>In 2004, the al-Islah Islamic Center in Hamtramck, Michigan, set off a contentious controversy when it requested permission to use loudspeakers to broadcast the <i>adhān</i>, or Islamic call to prayer. The issue gained international notoriety when media outlets from around the world flocked to the city to report on what had become a civil battle between religious tolerance and Islamophobic sentiment. The Hamtramck council voted unanimously to allow mosques to broadcast the <i>adhān</i>, making it one of the few US cities to officially permit it through specific legislation. <p/><i>Muslim American City </i>explores how debates over Muslim Americans' use of both public and political space have challenged and ultimately reshaped the boundaries of urban belonging. Drawing on more than ten years of ethnographic research in Hamtramck, which boasts one of the largest concentrations of Muslim residents of any American city, Alisa Perkins shows how the Muslim American population has grown and asserted itself in public life. She explores, for example, the efforts of Muslim American women to maintain gender norms in neighborhoods, mosques, and schools, as well as Muslim Americans' efforts to organize public responses to municipal initiatives. Her in-depth fieldwork incorporates the perspectives of both Muslims and non-Muslims, including Polish Catholics, African American Protestants, and other city residents. <p/>Drawing particular attention to Muslim American expressions of religious and cultural identity in civil life-particularly in response to discrimination and stereotyping-Perkins questions the popular assumption that the religiosity of Muslim minorities hinders their capacity for full citizenship in secular societies. She shows how Muslims and non-Muslims have, through their negotiations over the issues over the use of space, together invested Muslim practice with new forms of social capital and challenged nationalist and secularist notions of belonging.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Muslim American City</i> tells a complicated but important story of the expression of minority religious and civic identity in a US city. The book makes significant interventions in ongoing conversations about gender, sexuality, and Islam and the politics of religious freedom in the United States.-- "Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses"<br><br>Meticulously researched and written ... Written for a broad audience, <i>Muslim American City</i> is particularly suitable for those interested in questions of liberalism and religious pluralism in the United States.-- "Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations"<br><br>Perkins lays out the demographic history of the city and delves into gender among American Muslims generally before exploring aspects of Bangladeshi and Yemeni women in Hamtramck. Finally, she wades into municipal issues affecting Muslims, specifically controversies over the broadcast of the call to prayer and LGBTQ rights. The topical coverage of this work is unique.-- "CHOICE"<br>
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