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ajiss-1257	Hashemi, Manata	Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam by Akbar Ahmed (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2010. hbk. 528 pages)	2011.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1317	41	38	As such, the work represents one of the first post-9/11 sociological commen- taries that attempt to define the nature of American Muslim identity and the possibilities for its reevaluation. The author examines American identity and its forma- tion through an exploration of the historical episodes, which have shaped the distinctive ideological strains that form it; the ethnography of Islam in America and the issues facing native and immigrant Muslim populations in America—as well as the sociocultural factors leading to the conversion 127Reviews of white and Latino Americans to Islam—and finally, Ahmed offers a com- parison of Muslims to other minority groups in the United States, including Jews and Mormons and the ways each group has adjusted to the presence of the other.	cache/ajiss-1257.pdf	txt/ajiss-1257.txt