What Is an American Muslim?
Embracing Faith and Citizenship
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 27 February 2014
- ISBN 9780199895694
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages230 pages
- Size 236x165x22 mm
- Weight 499 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
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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.
This is a valuable source not only for American Muslims and their religious and ethnic leadership, but also for those who are more generally attempting to re-define the the place of Islam and Muslims in the context of Western societies.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
1. Identity and Citizenship: Beyond Minority Politics
2. Negotiating Citizenship in the United States
3. Religious Self-Determination for American Muslims
4. Legal Dimensions of Religions Self-Determination
5. What is an American Muslim? Looking Forward
Notes
Index
