id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
ajiss-2394	Altalib, Omar	Muslim Communities in North America: Edited by Yvonne Haddad and Jane Smith. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994, 545 pp.	1995.0	5	.pdf	application/pdf	2250	99	55	This book raises many important issues: the role of women in American Muslim communities; efforts to survive in a non-Muslim envi- ronment and to reach out to non-Muslim communities; minority-major- ity relations and the differential access of North American Muslim communities to power, wealth, and prestige; the maintenance of a Muslim identity; assimilation vs. preservation; and the urbanicity of Muslims in the West. After reading the book, one obtains a good sense of the varied history of American Muslim communities.	cache/ajiss-2394.pdf	txt/ajiss-2394.txt