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Homeland Insecurity: How Immigrant Muslims Naturalize America in Islam

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2011

Mucahit Bilici
Mucahit Bilici*
Affiliation:
John Jay College, City University of New York
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mucahitbilici@gmail.com
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There are approximately six million Muslims in the United States. They come from a great variety of backgrounds. Among the few things they have in common are Islam as a religion and their American experience. The latter produces some previously unencountered consequences, including the rise of English as the language of Muslim ummah (community) and the reality of being a “minority” in a non-Muslim society. The American experience also raises questions of citizenship, identity, and integration.

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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 53 , Issue 3 , July 2011 , pp. 595 - 622
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 2011

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