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What Is an American Muslim? - 9780199895694

Description: What Is an American Muslim? Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Embracing Faith and Citizenship Author(s): Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im Format: Hardback Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc ISBN-13: 9780199895694, 978-0199895694 Synopsis Abdullah An-na'im offers a pioneering exploration of American Muslim citizenship and identity, arguing against the prevalent emphasis on majority-minority politics and instead promoting a shared citizenship that both accommodates and transcends religious identity. Many scholars and community leaders have called on American Muslims to engage with or integrate into mainstream American culture. Such calls tend to assume that there is a distinctive, monolithic, minority religious identity for American Muslims. Rejecting the closed categories that determine the minority status of a particular group and that, in turn, impede active, engaged citizenship, An-na'im draws attention to the relational nature of identity, emphasizing a common base of national membership and advancing a legal approach to a public recognition of a person's status as citizen. Rather than perceive themselves or accept being perceived by others as a monolithic minority, he argues, American Muslims should view themselves as American citizens who happen to be Muslims. As American citizens, they share a vast array of identities with other American citizens, whether ethnic, political, or socio-economic. But none of these identities qualify or limit their citizenship. An-na'im urges members of the American Muslim community to take a proactive, affirmative view of their citizenship in order to realize their rights fully and fulfill their obligations in social and cultural as well as political and legal terms. He shows that the freedom to associate with others in order to engage in civic action to advance rights and interests is integral to the underlying rationale of citizenship and not something that must be relinquished to become an American citizen. What Is an American Muslim? provides acute insight into the nature of citizenship and identity, the place of religious affiliation in American society, and what it means to share in a collective identity.

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Book Title: What Is an American Muslim?

Number of Pages: 232 Pages

Publication Name: What Is an American Muslim?: Embracing Faith and Citizenship

Language: English

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Item Height: 236 mm

Subject: Social Sciences

Publication Year: 2014

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 442 g

Subject Area: Social Organisations, Political Science

Author: Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im

Item Width: 163 mm

Format: Hardcover

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