Zoning Faith

""A great book that introduces the reader to the intersection of Islam, urban space and the American experience. Tepe's meticulous research, ethnographer's eye and sharp analytical repertoire make this a unique contribution to the field of American Muslim Studies. It offers a distinctive window onto the urban history of American Islam."" - Mucahit Bilici, author of Finding Mecca in America: How Islam is Becoming an American Religion ""A masterful book analyzing the reciprocal relationship between cities and their Muslim populations. Tepe argues that only from a street-level view of Muslim encounters and engagements with the City can one fully appreciate the ways in which cities mold its minority communities and these communities simultaneously shape the contours of the City. The work is original and insightful and an important contribution to the scholarship on the political engagement of minority communities."" - Amaney A. Jamal, Edwards S. Sandford Professor of Politics, Princeton University ""A superb critical analysis of American Muslims in the global city of Chicago, ably narrated not top down from the city hall, but bottom up from the streets, capturing the agency of ordinary Shia, Sunni and Black Muslims as they create religious spaces of their own against many challenges including the common imaginary of American Muslims in cities as being either misplaced or displaced."" - Fatma Müge Göçek, author of Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present and the Collective Violence against Armenians, 1789-2009