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Using arguments that borrow from the themes and forms of European disputes, Islam: An American Religion demonstrates how, paradoxically, Islam as built in the United States has become an American religion in a double sense - first through the strategies of recognition adopted by Muslims and second through the formatting of Islam as a faith. In Islam: An American Religion, Nadia Marzouki investigates how Islam has developed a major stake in American politics. Focusing on the period from 2008 to 2013, she revisits the uproar over the construction of mosques, legal disputes around the prohibition of Islamic law and foreign law, and the overseas promotion of religious freedom. She argues that public controversies over Islam in the United States primarily reflects the American public's profound divisions and ambivalence toward the meaning and legitimacy of liberal secular democracy.
List of contents
Foreword, by Olivier Roy
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the American Edition: A Euro-American Debate Over Islam
Introduction
1. Muslim Americans: A Religious Minority Like Any Other?
2. The Mosque Controversies: Moral Offense and Religious Liberty
3. The Anti-Sharia Movement
4. The Face of Anti-Muslim Populism
5. Forcing the First Amendment: American Exporting of Religious Freedom
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the author
Olivier Roy ist Forschungsdirektor am Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) und unterrichtet an der Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales und an der Sciences Po in Paris. Er hat zahlreiche Bücher und Aufsätze über den politischen Islam, den islamistischen Terrorismus sowie den Mittleren und Nahen Osten veröffentlicht. Sein Buch "Der islamische Weg nach Westen" (2006) wurde zu einem häufig zitierten Standardwerk. Olivier Roy ist ein weltweit gefragter Islamismus-Experte.
Summary
Nadia Marzouki investigates how Islam has become so contentious in American politics. She argues that public controversies over Islam in the United States primarily reflect the American public's profound divisions and ambivalence toward freedom of speech and the legitimacy of liberal secular democracy.
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"Marzouki provides a unique approach to contemporary American political discourse surrounding Islam and documents vital results likely to remain relevant to readers in the U.S. and Europe for quite some time." Denise A. Spellberg, author of Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders, Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
