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American Medina
A Study of the Sunni Muslim Immigrant Communities in Chicago

By Garbi Schmidt
September, 1998 (Lund University / Almqvist & Wiksell International)
ISBN: 91-22-01814X
277 pages
$71.50 paper original

Sunni Muslims have immigrated to and lived in Chicago for more than a hundred years. This dissertation seeks, on basis of two periods of extended fieldwork, to provide a description of some activist strata of these religious communities. The description is framed by the portrayal of a number of Muslim institutions existing within the city and the interpretations of Islam that takes place within them.

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Religion; History; Sociology
Lund Studies in History of Religions: Volume 8