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Making Moderate Islam: Sufism, Service, and the Ground Zero Mosque Controversy

Making Moderate Islam: Sufism, Service, and the Ground Zero Mosque Controversy

Corbett, Rosemary R.

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Series: Racereligion

Religion General IslamRegional: Middle Atlantic

ISBN10: 1503600815
ISBN13: 9781503600812
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Nov 23 2016
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Drawing on a decade of research into the community that proposed the so-called Ground Zero Mosque, this book refutes the idea that current demands for Muslim moderation have primarily arisen in response to the events of 9/11, or to the violence often depicted in the media as unique to Muslims. Instead, it looks at a century of pressures on religious minorities to conform to dominant American frameworks for race, gender, and political economy. These include the encouraging of community groups to provide social services to the dispossessed in compensation for the government's lack of welfare provisions in an aggressively capitalist environment. Calls for Muslim moderation in particular are also colored by racist and orientalist stereotypes about the inherent pacifism of Sufis with respect to other groups. The first investigation of the assumptions behind moderate Islam in our country, Making Moderate Islam is also the first to look closely at the history, lives, and ambitions of the those involved in Manhattan's contested project for an Islamic community center.

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