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Integration1

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Are Western Muslims integrating? Can Western Muslims integrate? Over the past 20 years, significant attention has been invested in examinations stimulated by the extensive public commentary addressing such questions. This brief review aims to demystify the examination of Western Muslims’ integration in the interest of re-embedding this subject matter in the broader scholarship about immigration and settlement. Within this expanding field of study, Western Muslims can (and should) be examined at the community level, where specific ethno-cultural groups represent but case studies among hundreds of Western Muslim communities that differ in their immigration context, countries of origin, sects, and ethno-cultural backgrounds. Simultaneously, the collection of statistical data should be used to test hypotheses that are developed in studies of such communities. The dialogue between qualitative and quantitative approaches provides research openings to more rigorously push the state of knowledge in this area, and I describe some of these openings below.

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Special Section: Researching Western Muslims
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Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , Winter 2012 , pp. 190 - 199
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Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 2012

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Acknowledgments: I am grateful to Abdulkader Sinno for his diligent oversight of this special section and kind support in the preparation of this article. I would also like to thank John Bowen, Peter Mandaville, Eric Bleich, Jocelyne Cesari and Tim Peace for taking the time to discuss my ideas.

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