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American Muslim women American Muslim women Jamillah Ashira Karim "Focusing on women, who sometimes move outside of their ethnic Muslim spaced and interact with other Muslim ethnic groups in search of gender justice, this ethnographic study of African American and … OL11989183W
Money Has No Smell Money Has No Smell Paul Stoller Blending ethnographic description with social analysis, Stoller shows how West African entrepreneurs have built cohesive and effective multinational trading networks in New York. Their stories illumi… OL13372974W
American jihad American jihad Steven Emerson "The United States has become home to hundreds and probably thousands of terrorists, and it has become a central node in their international networks." "Steven Emerson has been working full-time sinc… OL15854595W
The convert The convert Deborah Baker What drives a young woman raised in a postwar New York City suburb to convert to Islam, abandon her country and Jewish faith, and embrace a life of exile in Pakistan? The convert tells the story of … OL16130602W
Patriot acts Patriot acts Alia Malek,Karen Korematsu In eighteen oral histories, Patriot Acts tells the stories of men and women who have been needlessly swept up in the War on Terror, and who have found themselves subject to rendition and torture, to … OL16471769W
Stop the Islamization of America Stop the Islamization of America Pamela Geller Islamic supremacism is seeping into every aspect of American life. Islamic jihad groups aren't solely concentrating on terror attacks (although another one of those could come at any moment), but on … OL16679887W
Arab Winter Comes to America Arab Winter Comes to America Robert Bruce Spencer Overlooked by our media, purposely obscured by our own government, and unnoticed by the vast majority of Americans, the turmoil of the Islamic world’s “Arab Spring” has become an “Arab Winter,” bring… OL17932683W
My country 'tis of thee My country 'tis of thee Keith Ellison Filled with anecdotes, statistics, and social commentary, the first Muslim elected to Congress presents a thought-provoking look at America and what needs to change to accommodate different races and… OL19704191W
No go zones No go zones Raheem Kassam No Go Zones. That's what they're called. And while the politically correct try to deny their existence, the shocking reality of these "No Go Zones"--Where Sharia law can prevail and local police stay… OL19755350W
Impossible man Impossible man Michael Muhammad Knight Impossible Man is the story of a teenager's troubled pathway toward maturity and the influences that steady him on his way to adulthood. OL19930504W
Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an D. A. Spellberg "In this original and illuminating book, Denise A. Spellberg reveals a little-known but crucial dimension of the story of American religious freedom-- a drama in which Islam played a surprising role.… OL19972476W
Threading my prayer rug Threading my prayer rug Sabeeha Rehman "This enthralling story of the making of an American is also a timely meditation on religion and culture. Threading My Prayer Rug is a richly textured reflection on what it is to be a Muslim in Ameri… OL20033646W
Muslims and the making of America Muslims and the making of America Amir Hussain "There has never been an America without Muslims"--so begins Amir Hussain, one of the most important scholars and teachers of Islam in America. Hussain, who is himself an American Muslim, contends ta… OL20047461W
Becoming American? Becoming American? Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad Countless generations of Arabs and Muslims have called the United States "home." Yet while diversity and pluralism continue to define contemporary America, many Muslims are viewed by their neighbors … OL20954393W
We are all Moors We are all Moors Anouar Majid An alternate history of xenophobia and how we must overcome it together In We Are All Moors, Anouar Majid contends that the acrimonious debates about immigration and Islam in the West are the cult… OL4025201W
Blue-eyed devil Blue-eyed devil Michael Muhammad Knight Michael Muhammad Knight embarks on a quest for an indigenous American Islam in a series of interstate odysseys. Traveling 20,000 miles by Greyhound in sixty days, he squats in run-down mosques, pursu… OL8899842W
My Year Inside Radical Islam My Year Inside Radical Islam Daveed Gartenstein-Ross My Year Inside Radical Islam is a memoir of first a spiritual and then a political seduction. Raised in liberal Ashland, Oregon, by parents who were Jewish by birth but dismissive of strict dogma, Da… OL8960177W