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Making Muslim space in North America and Europe / edited by Barbara Daly Metcalf

Metcalf, Barbara Daly,i1941-

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1996

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xix, 264 pages) : Illustrations

Comparative studies on Muslim societies ; 22

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-520-91743-9 ; 0-520-91743-X ; 0-585-09142-0 ; 978-0-585-09142-6 ; 978-0-520-20403-4 ; 0-520-20403-4 ; 978-0-520-20404-1 ; 0-520-20404-2 ; 0-520-20403-4

 

Nordafrika  Muslim  Lebensraum  Westeuropa  Geschichte 

 

Focusing on the private and public use of space, this volume explores the religious life of the new Muslim communities in North America and Europe. Unlike most studies of immigrant groups, these essays concentrate on cultural practices and expressions of everyday life rather than on the political issues that dominate today's headlines. The authors emphasize the cultural strength and creativity of communities that draw upon Islamic symbols and practices to define "Muslim space" against the background of a non-Muslim environment. -- The range of perspectives is broad, encompassing middle-class professionals, mosque congregations, factory workers in France and the north of England, itinerant African traders, and prison inmates in New York. The truism that "Islam is a religion of the word" takes on concrete meaning as these disparate communities find ways to elaborate word-centered ritual and to have the visual and aural presence of sacred words in the spaces they inhabit. -- Publisher description.