Muslims and Jews in America

As a collection of essays, the volume, Muslims and Jews in America, provides space for a group of academicians, Imams, Rabbis, and activists to write about the experiences and issues of their respective communities in the United States. There is no thematic thread that runs through all the essays and that makes reviewing this work quite difficult. Therefore, short of reviewing each and every article included in this volume, it is impossible to provide an overview of this work without emphasizing some articles and overlooking others. Instead, I would address the overarching logic that could have been in the mind of those who put the collection together. Of course, as I am not familiar with that process, these assumptions are solely based on the content of the articles and the biographies of the contributors. Some of the contributors are established authorities in academic study of Islam and Judaism at the same time. Firestone, for instance, has a solid record of teaching and writing about Islam and Judaism. His perspective, like that of those with similar expertise, provides a much needed resource for the public to navigate the complexities and the subtleties of the relationships between Islam and Judaism as academic disciplines and normative forces within the respective communities.

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