Within Her initial e-book, religious research scholar Justine Howe analyse how Muslim households in suburban Chicago came with each other to provide an “American Islam.” Photos by Mike Sands.

In 2004, several Muslim people in Chicago’s western suburbs set about retaining spiritual observances, recreational occasions, academic software and casual parties to meet the company’s community’s special religious and cultural goals. To enable these actions, they formed the Mohammed Webb support, a company they created as a “third room,” neither property nor mosque, exactly where they are able to examine exactly what Justine Howe dubs “the potentialities of Muslim being and belonging inside the modern United States.”

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