Using an informal letter-like format, the author raises a number of issues ranging from the faults, foibles, and shortcomings of the Muslim Ummah, to domestic politics, to geopolitics and world events, to private Islamic education in America, to the future of the second and third generations of Muslims in America, etc.  In raising these issues, the author does not hesitate to hold a mirror up to the Muslim Ummah and to address the discrepancies that often exist between Islam and the behavior and practices of everyday Muslims.  Addressed primarily to the Muslim Ummah in America, this book will also be of value to anyone interested in Muslims in America.

Letters to My Elders in Islam  Jerald F. Dirks, Amana Publications, 2008

408 pages. $18.00.

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