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ajiss-1740	Khan, Shaza	Muslims in the United States: The State of Research by Karen Isaksen Leonard (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2003. 199 pages.)	2005.0	3	.pdf	application/pdf	958	35	47	Given that many Muslims throughout the world actually believe in the presence and reality of a universal ummah, this argument and its proofs are incredibly important to contemporary Islamic thought. She identifies three sets of issues that have his- 124 The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 22:1 torically arisen in research and theory building on Muslims in the United States: legitimacy as it relates to African-American Muslim movements, the problem of religious authority in the smaller national-origin and sectar- ian communities, and the lack of research on the lives of “un-mosqued,” “invisible,” or secular Muslims.	cache/ajiss-1740.pdf	txt/ajiss-1740.txt