Soul survival: the road to American Muslim political empowerment

Al-Arian discusses the political empowerment of American Muslims. Specifically, the Sept 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States and the subsequent "war on terrorism" that led to military conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, while placing the rest of the world on heightened alert, inevitably sparked curiosity about Islam within Western academia and popular culture. It is under the pall of these world events that Muslims in the US have found themselves the subject of much scrutiny and debate.