"This is a sophisticated and fascinating book. It should enjoy a wide readership in religious studies, Islamic studies, gender studies, and even in Jewish studies and nicely compliments other recent and forthcoming biographies of American Jewish political and religious thinkers."-- Shari Rabin, author of The Jewish South: An American History "An erudite and nuanced study of an important figure in the Islamic Revival movement of the late twentieth century. The book is beautifully and clearly written. Howe's theoretical approach to her sources is impressive. This book can serve well in methodology courses."-- Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, author of A History of Islam in America "This is an original and illuminating book. By placing Maryam Jameelah at the center of a transnational history of religion and feeling, Justine Howe shows how modern Muslim identity took shape not only through global Islamic Revival but also through a complex engagement with American Jewish experience and identity.

Richly textured and intellectually ambitious, this book will reshape conversations about affect, gender, and American and global religious history."-- Rachel Gordan, author of Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American "A profoundly engaging critical biography of a woman who defied expectations, and whose life connected the US and Pakistan, Reform Judaism and Islam, global Muslim revival movements and the American religious landscape of the twentieth century. Howe's brilliant and accessible account, drawing on affect theory and gender analysis, is about much more than the life of one person."-- Juliane Hammer, author of Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts against Domestic Violence.