American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah

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285 Abd-Allah, Umar Faruq, 100, 155; on American culture, 137, 140–142, 144–148; on American Muslims’ focus on Muslims abroad, 137–140; on converts , 140–142; on ijtihad, 146–147; on Palestine, 138; on U.S. foreign policy, 145. See also Nawawi Foundation Abdul Sattar, Husain, 73–74, 140 Abdur-Razak, Faisal Hamid, 140 Abou El Fadl, Khaled, 89, 145 Abu Nour Islamic Institute, 153 Abuwi, Mahasin, 153 al-`Adawiyyah, Rabi`a, 16 Affirmative action, American Muslims’ views of, 44, 249n52 African immigrants, 5, 28 Ahmadiyya, 6`Aisha, wife of the Prophet Muhammad, 172 Alalusi, Hesham, 57 Al-Amin, Jamil, 15, 65–66, 70–71, 88, 166–167, 169, 182, 187; and gender partition, 183 Ali, Kecia, 145–146 Ali, Muhammad, 76 Ali, Nadim, 167 Almadina Halal Meats, 168–169 Appadurai, Arjun, 26, 46 Arabic, 1, 12, 16, 74, 236, 244n13; and African American Muslims, 16, 41, 152–153, 192, 199. See also Arabs Arab-Israeli conflict, 126, 138. See also Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Palestine Arabs, 5, 12, 110, 119, 228, 243n4; in African American Muslim space, 168; in DIP community, 58, 139–140; and ethnic mosques, 257n27; as IMAN volunteers, 82; influence on African American Muslims , 42–43, 86, 157, 192, 196–197, 210; in the inner-city, 34, 68, 78; as marriage partners to South Asians, 136; and Minister Louis Farrakhan, 78; and September 11 backlash, 40, 134; South Asians mistaken for, 104, 132; in spaces with South Asian Muslims, 7, 15, 37, 39, 54, 62, 66–67, 103, 108, 113, 156 Atlanta, 8, 10, 23–24, 47, 50, 66, 77, 84–85, 157, 163–227, 235; rational for choosing as research site, 13–15 Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam, 15, 165–169, 182, 184, 187, 194–195; author’s affiliation with, 8, 165; gender arrangements in, 170, 174–175, 177, 189–192; women’s dress in, 187. See also Mosques; WDM community Atlantic Station, 168 Averroes Academy, 65 Azizah Magazine, 11, 228 Bacon, Jean, 92 al-Banna, Hasan, 63 Beloit, Wisconsin, 102, 106 Bhabha, Homi, 95–96 Bilalian, 130 Black Baptist women, 91, 94 Black church, 91 Index 286 Index Black Muslims, 4, 240. See also Nation of Islam Black Panthers, 255n27 Black Power, 66, 85, 111 Bridges TV, 11 Bridgeview, IL, 54, 130; mosque, 84. See also Universal School Bush, George W., 149 Cairo, 157, 162 Cambridge, MA, 116–117 Campus ummah, 13, 16, 24, 66, 73–74, 118–121, 156, 206–227, 234–235; conversion in, 111–113; and IMAN, 83. See also Hijab; Muslim students’ organizations Chicago, 1, 6, 22, 25–26, 38–39, 43, 49–163, 228, 232, 235–236, 240; rationale for choosing as research site, 13–15 ChicagoMuslims.com, 61 Civic engagement, 82, 139, 238–241, 251n13, 256n7, 257n26. See also Zakat Clara Muhammad Elementary School, 9, 119, 169 Clark Atlanta University, 84, 198 Collective Purchasing Company (CPC)/ Comtrust, 79, 155–156 College campuses. See Campus ummah Collins, Patricia, 91 Colonialism, 42–43, 87, 238; and Muslim reform movements, 63 Community Masjid of Atlanta, 15, 165–167, 183. See also Al-Amin, Jamil; West End Converts, 5, 20, 45, 64, 142–144, 158, 213, 246n37; conversion in South Asian communities, 111–113; conversion on university campuses, 85, 111–113; and expectations of racial equality and sisterhood in Islam, 2–3, 36; as feminists, 188; and the gender partition, 189; and immigrant religious authority, 41–44, 151, 157; and Siraj Wahhaj, 143; and Umar Faruq Abd-Allah, 140–142; and W. D. Mohammed, 58 cooke, miriam, 12, 18, 93, 96 Cousins, Tom, 165 Daley, Richard J., 52 Dar-ul-Uloom, 199 Dar-un-Noor School, 169 Dàwah, 68, 83, 128, 140, 143, 153, 251n13; African Americans more effective at, 44. See also Civic engagement; September 11 Deen Intensive Program. See DIP community De Genova, Nicholas, 35 Demographics: American Muslims, 4, 243n4; ethnic makeup of American Muslims, 5, 243n4 DePaul University, 65, 100 Derrida, Jacques, 215 Devon, 52, 72, 74, 130 DIP community, 15–16, 58, 65; African American Muslims in, 139–142; and American culture, 139–149; and author ’s affiliation, 57, 158; Deen Intensive Program, 15, 57–58, 139–148, 153, 162; and ijtihad, 146–147; and madhhab, 16, 58, 121, 147; online, 61; and research participants, 20, 59, 61, 75, 133; rihla, 57, 61, 72, 74; and Sheikh Hamza Yusuf, 57–58, 65, 148–149; and Sufism, 16, 58, 114–115, 121, 158. See also Madhhab; Mawlid; Sufism Divorce, 45, 72, 181, 191–193, 195, 197, 201...