Muslims of metropolis : the stories of three immigrant families in the West /
The Muslim population globally is comprised of hundreds of ethnic, linguistic, and religious sub-communities. Yet, more often than not, the public conflates these diverse and unrelated communities, branding Muslim immigrants as a single, suspicious, and culturally antagonistic group of people. Gener...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
2008
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | The Muslim population globally is comprised of hundreds of ethnic, linguistic, and religious sub-communities. Yet, more often than not, the public conflates these diverse and unrelated communities, branding Muslim immigrants as a single, suspicious, and culturally antagonistic group of people. Generalizations like these have compromised many Muslim immigrants? sense of belonging and acceptance in places where they have lived, in some cases, for three or four generations. In Muslims of Metropolis, Kavitha Rajagopalan takes a much needed step in personalizing and humanizing our understanding of. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 283 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-276) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813545516 081354551X 128180164X 9781281801647 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
