Several … American Muslims have written about the community. For example, James Yee’s For God and Country (2005), Sumbul Ali-Karamali’s The Muslims Next Door (2008), and Asma Nomani’s Standing Alone in Mecca (2006) have experienced modest mainstream success. Mucahit Bilici’s Finding Mecca in America (2012) is a notable, although a more academic, work. Download Source:...Read More

M. Hakan Yavuz was one of the early contributors to the literature on the Gülen movement, co-editing a major volume on the subject with John Esposito in 2003 (Hakan Yavuz and John Esposito, Turkish Islam and the Secular State: The Gülen Movement [Syracuse University Press: 2003]). In the intervening decade the movement has grown considerably...Read More

John Esposito and John Voll narrate in their Makers of Contemporary Islam a brief story: “An old Christian acquaintance of al-Faruqi once commented that al-Faruqi believed that Islam was in need of reformation and, he believed, al-Faruqi aspired to be its Luther.”1 Even though this was a sincere assessment, Esposito and Voll speculate that al-Faruqi...Read More

The topic of relations of several religious groups in the world from different perspectives has been a hot issue among researchers and stakeholders. This article addresses the future relations between the majority and minority religious groups, particularly a case study of Bugis Muslims and Bugis Hindus known as Towani Tolotang who live in a harmonious...Read More