Title

Burqas, baseball, and apple pie : being Muslim in America / Ranya Tabari Idliby.

Author

Idliby, Ranya, 1965-

Publication

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Details

Description

viii, 239 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subjects

• Idliby, Ranya, 1965-
• FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
• United States > Religious life and customs
• United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020
• United States > Ethnic relations
• Muslims > United States > Social conditions
• Muslims > Cultural assimilation > United States
• Islamophobia > United States
• Muslims > United States > Ethnic identity
• Muslim families > United States
• Idliby, Ranya, 1965- > Family

Genre/Form

Autobiographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

prologue -- Why would anyone choose to be a Muslim? -- Accidental Muslims -- The Faith Club, my Abrahamic family -- A crisis of faith : sticks and stones can hurt my bones but God should not hurt me -- Food for thought -- In God we trust : an American-Muslim knight -- How to beat a wife -- Who speaks for Islam? -- Foolish fatwas -- "Mommy, sometimes I don't want to support the U.S. team" -- Thumbs up! -- I heard it on Hannity -- "No Muslim parking" -- "Mom, are all terrorists Muslims?" -- The path to the watering hole -- "Mommy, can I marry a Jew?" -- Burqas and pornography : two sides of the same coin -- Islam, not "Hislam" : on Muslim feminists -- Apes and swines -- In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man -- Proud Muslims, not lesser Muslims : let there be joy -- Proud Americans, not lesser Americans : America, a love story.

ISBN

• 9780230341845 (hbk.)
• 0230341845 (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2013036413

OCLC

852658358

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library