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Parents and Youth: Perceiving and Practicing Islam in North America

dc.contributor.authorBarazangi, Nimat Hafez
dc.date.accessioned2007-06-26T17:49:50Z
dc.date.available2007-06-26T17:49:50Z
dc.date.issued1991
dc.descriptionCopyright 1991, Alberta University Press. This is a pre-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication in the edited book Muslim Familes in North America following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available through Alberta University Press: http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?lid=41&bookid=162. See also: http://www.eself-learning-arabic.cornell.edu/publications.htm#4en_US
dc.description.abstractThis chapter examines how some Arab Muslim youth and families in North America perceive themselves both as Arabs and as Muslims in the context of Canadian and United States societies. Parents are concerned with how best to transmit the Islamic ideological and Arab cultural heritage to their children. One of their problems derives from differences among Arab Muslims, who come from varied national origins and hold several interpretations of the Islamic view, not all of which are based on the Qur'an; as a result they also have different nationalistic attachments to their understanding of Arab heritage. A second problem arises between immigrant parents and their American-reared children. The children may participate in American culture to a greater extent than their parents, and they are constantly faced with the conceptual need to accommodate potentially conflicting points of view. Effective identity transmission requires the determination of the nature and extent of the different interpretations held by parents and their children and of the way these interpretations are reflected in their practice of Islam and association with the Arabic heritage.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationin Earle H. Waugh, Sharon McIrvin Abu-Laban and Regula Burckhardt Qureshi, Eds. Muslim Familes in North America. Alberta University Press, Edmonton (1991), pp. 132-147en_US
dc.identifier.isbn0-88864-225-3
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/7789
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherAlberta University Pressen_US
dc.subjectMuslim parents and youthen_US
dc.subjectNorth Americaen_US
dc.subjectPerceiving and practicing Islamen_US
dc.titleParents and Youth: Perceiving and Practicing Islam in North Americaen_US
dc.typebook chapteren_US

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