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This text aims to discover the shared lived experiences of white American female converts to Islam in post- 9/11 America. It explores the increasingly hostile social climate faced by Muslim Americans, as well as the spiritual, social, physical, and mental integration of these women into the Muslim-American population. In the United States, rates of conversion to Islam are rapidly increasing—alongside Islamophobic sentiment and hate crimes against Muslims. For a period of time, there was a lull in this negative sentiment. However, in light of the Paris terror attacks, the increased prominence of ISIS/ISIL, and the influx of refugees from Syria, anti-Muslim rhetoric is once again on the rise. This volume analyzes how a singular collection of female converts have adapted to life in the United States in the shadow of 9/11.
Perhaps you have preconceived, negative notions about Islam. Perhaps you have only seen it as portrayed by the media when reporting about terrorists - those few who would be terrorists regardless of their religion. Perhaps you have read or heard about Islam from unauthentic or biased sources. So, I invite you to objectively and open-mindedly read this book demonstrating the beauty, clarity, and simplicity of Islam.
The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS) is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world: anthropology, economics, history, philosophy and metaphysics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam. Submissions are subject to a blind peer review process.
Katie Lynn had nothing to gain and everything to lose by sharing her ancestors' secrets with her family. With eyes fading in their vibrancy at ninety-two years young, she faced all her inner doubts, threw caution to the wind, and did what she believed to be right. This decision had consequences that she never could have anticipated, taking her and her great granddaughters on an adventure that not only crossed the decades, but the centuries. They touch fingers with the distant past, discovering personal ties and relevancy in the experiences of their elder generations. History's broad brush paints on a landscape depicted through the characters' slightly myopic lens as they uncover their ancest...
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Muslim women living in America continue to be marginalized and misunderstood since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, yet their contributions are changing the face of Islam as it is seen both within Muslim communities in the West and by non-Muslims.