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Given the intense political scrutiny of Islam and Muslims, which often centre on gendered concerns, this book is an outstanding reference source to key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject. It is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, Islamic studies and gender studies.

In Suburban Islam, Justine Howe explores the rise of "third spaces, " created by educated, middle-class American Muslims to challenge their exclusion from the American mainstream and to enact visions for American Islam different from those they encounter in their local mosques. Howe shows how third spaces have shaped not just the development of American Islam, but are also reshaping the rich religious landscape of America's suburbs.

Given the intense political scrutiny of Islam and Muslims, which often centre on gendered concerns, this book is an outstanding reference source to key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject. It is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, Islamic studies and gender studies.

The first study about how third spaces have begun to reshape post-9/11 American Muslim communities~Explores conflicts of gender, ethnicity, and class in contemporary Islam~Demonstrates how American Islam is constructed and performed through everyday rituals of suburban leisure and consumerism