The Nashashibis' fairy tale -- The Dogans' long good-bye -- The Islams' last resort -- Reclaiming the distant homeland -- Recreating the lost village -- Rejecting the burden of heritage -- Sharif goes home -- Sukriye finds love -- Nishat lets go
Summary
The Muslim population globally is comprised of hundreds of ethnic, linguistic, and religious sub-communities. Yet, more often than not, the public conflates these diverse and unrelated communities, branding Muslim immigrants as a single, suspicious, and culturally antagonistic group of people. Generalizations like these have compromised many Muslim immigrants? sense of belonging and acceptance in places where they have lived, in some cases, for three or four generations. In Muslims of Metropolis, Kavitha Rajagopalan takes a much needed step in personalizing and humanizing our understanding of
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-276) and index
