Young American Muslims

Nahid Afrose Kabir is Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding, University of South Australia. She was a visiting fellow (2009–2011) at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, USA. Dr Kabir is the author of 'Young British Muslims: Identity, Culture, Politics and the Media' (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2010) and 'Muslims in Australia: Immigration, Race Relations and Cultural History' (London: Routledge 2005).

• List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Glossary; Acknowledgements; Introduction: My Journey and the ‘Muslim Question’; Chapter 1: Identity Matters; Chapter 2: The Culture Debate; Chapter 3: What Does it Take to be an American? ; Chapter 4: Reflections on the American Media; Chapter 5: Barack Hussein Obama and Young Muslims’ Political Awareness; Chapter 6: The Palestinian Question; Chapter 7: From Here to Where?; Selected Bibliography; Index.

Multidimensional in nature…It tackles issues of ideologies within and outside of Islam, the formation of perceptions toward the Muslim community, demographic factors which interact with the Muslim identity, and an array of other topics which the author skillfully assesses and considers in this work…Moreover, the tables, research methodologies, and findings are presented in a fashion which makes reading and interpretation easy to do. Despite such simplicity, the book retains absolute creditability through its solid research, careful scrutiny to detail, and revealing findings which paint a story worth telling.