Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam - Couverture rigide

In 2007, the Brookings Institution Press published 'Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization'. In that critically acclaimed book, Akbar Ahmed led a group of U.S. university students on a listening tour of the Islamic world, seeking to understand the experiences and perceptions of ordinary Muslims and their attitudes toward the West. Ahmed follows up that classic analysis with 'Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam', a fascinating travelogue that presents a thoughtful and reflective examination of American identity, the Muslim experience in America, and how each has affected the other. In 'Journey into America', Ahmed and his cohorts travel throughout the United States, much as they traveled through the Middle East and South Asia for the previous book. They speak to ordinary citizens, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, trying to discern exactly what is American identity? How do Muslims fit into that picture, and how has the U.S. Muslim experience changed over the years, particularly in the wake of September 11? And how is the picture changing today? Ahmed paints a mixed picture but still sees the largely pluralist society hopefully anticipated by Thomas Jefferson.

Akbar Ahmed is the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. He has taught at Princeton, Harvard, and Cambridge Universities and is former high commissioner of Pakistan to Great Britain. His many books include After Terror: Promoting Dialogue among Civilizations, with Brian Forst (Polity, 2005), Islam under Siege: Living Dangerously in a Post-Honour World (Polity, 2003) and Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Society (Routledge, 2002).