Islam Is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority

Contents

>> ix Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Unmapping the Muslim World 1 Part I: The Roots and Routes of Islam in America 1 Islam Is a Foreign Country: Mapping the Global 31 Crisis of Authority 2 Islamic Utopias, American Dystopia: Muslim Moral 79 Geographies after the Great Migration 3 Imaginary Homelands, American Dreams: Sunni 125 Moral Geographies after 1965 Part II: Tradition Bound 4 Retrieving Tradition: Pedagogical Forms and 177 Secular Reforms 5 Choosing Tradition: Women Student-Travelers 219 between Resistance and Submission 6 Transmitting Tradition: The Constraints of Crisis 253 7 Muslim Reformers and the American Media: 292 The Exceptional Umma and Its Emergent Moral Geography Epilogue: American Muslims and the Place of Dissent 347 Notes 357 Index 389 About the Author 395 This page intentionally left blank ...