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Muslim American City: Gender and Religion in Metro Detroit

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Muslim American City: Gender and Religion in Metro Detroit

Dr. Alisa Perkins, "Muslim American City: Gender and Religion in Metro Detroit"
English | ISBN: 1479828017 | 2020 | 264 pages | PDF | 2 MB

Explores how Muslim Americans test the boundaries of American pluralism

In 2004, the al-Islah Islamic Center in Hamtramck, Michigan, set off a contentious controversy when it requested permission to use loudspeakers to broadcast the adhān, or Islamic call to prayer. The issue gained international notoriety when media outlets from around the world flocked to the city to report on what had become a civil battle between religious tolerance and Islamophobic sentiment. The Hamtramck council voted unanimously to allow mosques to broadcast the



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