Intro; In-Between Identities: Signs of Islam in Contemporary American Writing; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction-Words Beneath Words; 1 Traveling with an American Qur'an: Sandow Birk and the Thirty Mosques in Thirty Days Project; 1 Plurality Across 30 Mosques; 2 Everyday Bonds: Living Muslim Lives in America; 3 Assembling the Stories of 30 Mosques; 4 Sandow Birk and Scenes for an American Qur'an; 5 Bending Borders in an American Qur'an; 6 Tradition as a Ritual Process of Communication; 2 "Learning to Pray All Over": The Body in Mohja Kahf's Poetry and Fiction
1 Marvelous Women2 The Language of the Body; 3 (Un)moored; 4 Just Being; 3 "Are You a Muslim or Will You Love?" Dropping the Veil in Kazim Ali's Writing; 1 The Body in Space; 2 Patterns in and of the Body; 4 Begun in Mystery: Ayad Akhtar's Fiction and Drama; 1 Visible Lives, Invisible Hands; 2 The Invisible Hand; 3 Akhtar's Islam; 4 Faith and the Body; 5 Disgraced; 5 "Sometimes I Feel Me": Between Faith and Resistance in the Poetry of Blackamerican Islam; 1 Amir Sulaiman; 2 Blueprint; 6 Where Hope Begins: The Intertextual Worlds of Rabih Alameddine
Conclusion-"Half In, Half Out": Willow Wilson and Ms. Marvel to the RescueBibliography; Index
