About this Book

A new, self-aware cohort of Muslim youth has arisen since the attacks of 9/11, facilitated by recent communication technologies and the Internet. These young people do not share a common socioeconomic status, cultural sensibility, or political position. Nor are they united in their ways of being Muslim. Focusing on these young people as a heterogeneous global cohort, the contributors to this volume-who draw from a variety of disciplines-show how the study of Muslim youth at this particular historical juncture is relevant to thinking about the anthropology of youth, the anthropology of Islamic and Muslim societies, and the post-9/11 world more generally. These scholars focus on young Muslims in a variety of settings in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North America and explore the distinct pastimes and performances, processes of civic engagement and political action, entrepreneurial and consumption practices, forms of self-fashioning, and aspirations and struggles in which they engage as they seek to understand their place and make their way in a transformed world. As one of the few books to examine the intersection of studies of Islam and studies of youth, this volume points to the importance of both anthropological approaches to our understanding of the contemporary world.