TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kabba,Zainab
TI  - Knowledge, authority, and Islamic education in the West
T2  - Routledge studies in religion
SN  - 9781003166290
U1  - 297.7/70973 23/eng/20240217
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Ethnic identity
KW  - Identification (Religion)
KW  - Islamic education
KW  - Western countries
KW  - RELIGION / General
KW  - RELIGION / Education
KW  - RELIGION / Islam / General
N1  - Introduction -- 1. Knowledge and Authority -- 2. Islamic and Muslim Learning in the United States -- 3. The Spirit's Action -- 4. The Journey -- 5. Pressure Makes Diamonds -- 6. Living the Dream -- 7. Negotiating Boundaries of Muslim Practice -- 8. The Seekers' Seekers -- Index
N2  - "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"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003166290
ER  -