This ethnographic study focuses on emerging adult Muslims engaged in religious learning in Western environments. It draws on fieldwork in the United States, Canada, and Turkey to explore the production of knowledge and the formation of religious identity. The book documents and analyzes the ways in which four intensive pedagogical settings, and the student-teacher encounters within them, act as vehicles to reconceptualize Islamic tradition and provide Muslims with understandings of their past that inform choices for their futures. It considers the pervasiveness of technology and the decentralized nature of juridical interpretation in Islam that fosters competition amongst a myriad of knowledge producers, contouring religious understandings and practice for Muslims in contexts such as America. The author argues for shifting the vertical nature of religious authority by parsing the components between teachers and students that are continuously communicated and calibrated to enable authority to materialize. In addition to contributing to debates on the challenges of intra-Muslim dialogue in relation to the umma, this volume illustrates how American Sunni-Muslim communities readapt classical narratives of Islamic tradition in a digital age despite the tense geopolitics currently surrounding Islam.
This ethnographic study focuses on emerging adult Muslims engaged in religious learning in Western environments. It draws on fieldwork in the United States, Canada, and Turkey to explore the production of knowledge and the formation of religious identity.
Introduction;
1. Knowledge and Authority;
2. Islamic and Muslim Learning
in the United States;
3. The Spirits Action;
4. The Journey;
5. Pressure
Makes Diamonds;
6. Living the Dream;
7. Negotiating Boundaries of Muslim
Practice;
8. The Seekers Seekers
Zainab Kabba is an independent scholar, educator, researcher, and strategist. She has spent over 20 years working in and with institutions to build learning architectures that deliver actionable insights, cultivate community, and create social impact. She is the Founder and CEO of Quotidian Strategies, a boutique consultancy company that provides bespoke research, evaluation, and learning partnership services. She holds a B.S. in Information Systems from Stony Brook University, an M.A. in Computing in Education from Teachers College, Columbia University and a DPhil in Education from the University of Oxford, UK.
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