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A compelling portrait of a group of boys as they navigate the complexities of being both American teenagers and good Muslims
This book provides a uniquely personal look at the social worlds of a group of young male friends as they navigate the complexities of growing up Muslim in America. Drawing on three and a half years of intensive fieldwork in and around a large urban mosque, John OBrien offers a compelling portrait of typical Muslim American teenage boys concerned with typical teenage issuesgirlfriends, school, parents, being coolyet who are also expected to be good, practicing Muslims who dont date before marriage, who avoid vulgar popular culture, and who never miss their prayers.
Many Americans unfamiliar with Islam or Muslims see young men like these as potential ISIS recruits. But neither militant Islamism nor Islamophobia is the main concern of these boys, who are focused instead on juggling the competing cultural demands that frame their everyday lives. OBrien illuminates how they work together to manage their culturally contested lives through subtle and innovative strategiessuch as listening to profane hip-hop music in acceptably Islamic ways, professing individualism to cast their participation in communal religious obligations as more acceptably American, dating young Muslim women in ambiguous ways that intentionally complicate adjudications of Islamic permissibility, and presenting a low-key Islam in public in order to project a Muslim identity without drawing unwanted attention.
Closely following these boys as they move through their teen years together, Keeping It Halal sheds light on their strategic efforts to manage their day-to-day cultural dilemmas as they devise novel and dynamic modes of Muslim American identity in a new and changing America.

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KEEPING IT HALAL
Keeping It Halal
The Everyday Lives
of Muslim American
Teenage Boys
John OBrien
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON AND OXFORD
Copyright 2017 by Princeton University Press
Published by Princeton University Press,
41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press,
6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TR
press.princeton.edu
Jacket illustration, lettering, and design by Amanda Weiss
All Rights Reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: OBrien, John (John Hoffman), 1973- author.
Title: Keeping it Halal : the everyday lives of Muslim American teenage boys / John OBrien.
Description: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016058249 | ISBN 9780691168821 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Muslim youthUnited StatesSocial conditions. | Muslim menUnited StatesSocial conditions. | MuslimsCultural assimilationUnited States. | United StatesRace relations.
Classification: LCC E184.M88 O27 2017 | DDC 305.6/97073dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016058249
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available
This book has been composed in Adobe Text Pro
Printed on acid-free paper.
Printed in the United States of America
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For Hamza, Nailah, and Shazia. Your Dad loves you.
For Ed OBrien (19452015). I love you, Dad.
CONTENTS
The Culturally Contested Lives of Muslim Youth
and American Teenagers 1
Cool Piety: How to Listen to Hip Hop
as a Good Muslim 22
The American Prayer: Islamic Obligation
and Discursive Individualism 50
Keeping It Halal and Dating While Muslim:
Two Kinds of Muslim Romantic Relationships 78
PREFACE: FINDING EVERYDAY
MUSLIM AMERICAN LIVES
This is a book about young Muslim men growing up in the United States. It is not a booknot directly, anywayabout the Islamic State, Al-Qaeda, radicalization, or terrorism.
Why do I feel the need to make this point right away? Because, according to a recent nationally representative survey, almost half of the American people still believe that there is an inherent association between Islam and violence. After being consistently bombarded with news coverage and political discourse in which Muslims and terrorism are almost always linked, and with precious few counternarratives or corrective experiences to draw upon, many Americans assume that when we talk about Muslims we must also be talking about issues of terrorism and militant violence. The complex and dynamic reality of Muslim American lives is (of course) much broader, deeper, and richer than this narrow and security-obsessed view allows.
Guided by the traditions of sociological ethnography, this book takes a fine-grained and long-term look at the lives of a group of Muslim American youth growing up together in the early twenty-first century. In telling the story of these Muslim American young men, the book seeks to broaden the analytical frame, to look beyond the default issues of radicalization, terrorism, and even Islamophobia and instead ground the analysis in the set of issues and concerns most central to young Muslim American men themselves. The result is a book that reports on the real experience of growing up Muslim and male in the contemporary United States, an experience primarily centered on managing the competing cultural demands of religious Islam on the one hand and American teen life on the other and having almost nothing to do with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Al-Qaeda, or militant recruitment.
While there certainly are Muslims in the United States who are drawn to extremist causes such as ISIS or Al-Qaeda, these individuals represent a tiny fraction of Muslim Americans overall. For example, in 2015, just thirty-nine Muslim Americans out of an estimated population of around 3 million were linked to plots to attack American civilians in the United States. These individuals represented about 0.001 percent of all American Muslims. Because this study is concerned with understanding the everyday lives of more or less typical Muslim American young men, it does not directly address those few who are attracted to such militant groups but rather seeks to understand the social lives and daily realities of the great majority of young Muslim men who have no interest in such ideologies or activities. In this way, the book presents a picture of young Muslims in the West who do not exhibit a strong sense of alienation, are generally happy and satisfied, and are effectively managing their complicated social and cultural lives. As will be seen, through their own ongoing efforts, and with support from their immediate communities, these young men are able to maintain a positive sense of both their Muslim identity and their American identity.
This book therefore turns attention to nonthreatening, average, satisfied, and complicated Muslim American youth as a set of people whom sociologist Wayne Brekhus would term the unmarkeda social group that has become invisible to the general public because its members do not fit prevalent, expected stereotypes.these young people believe that it is possible to be both religiously Muslim and culturally American, but they are living out this reality in their everyday lives already, with all of its challenges, complexities, and rewards.
Entering the City Mosque
One sunny Sunday morning in January of 2007, I walked toward the front doors of the City Mosque to begin what would end up being three and a half years of fieldwork in the mosques Muslim community. Though I didnt know it at the time, I would end up working most intensively with a group of young Muslim men whom I here call the Legendz, after the name of their sometimes active hip hop group. On this particular morning, I was scheduled to meet with Omar Hashmi, the religious director of this prominent mosque, which was located in a major American city that I will here call Coast City. Omar was a friend of a friend who had agreed to meet with me after I explained to him over the phone that I was a sociology graduate student interested in studying the daily lives of Muslim Americans.
As I approached the mosque building, which was located in an area of town populated mostly by working-class immigrant families from Mexico and Korea, I noticed the prevalence of fast food places, corner stores, and car dealerships. At first glance, the mosque looked like any nondescript two-story office building. Its Islamic identity was only revealed upon closer inspection, thanks to gold letters spelling out the words City Mosque on the brick faade to the right of the glass double doors. I would later learn that the building once housed the offices of a flooring company before a small but growing population of actively practicing Muslim immigrants from Egypt, Palestine, Somalia, and Pakistan purchased and began remodeling it as a mosque and Islamic community center in the late 1970s. I walked through the doors and into an open lobby of about twelve hundred square feet, with a large prayer area of about the same size on my left. I turned to see a man with short wavy brown hair and a gray suit standing near the front desk. I said to him, As salaamu alaikum (May peace be upon you), and he replied, Wa alaikum as salaam
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