Patel, Youshaa  (1976-....) <br/><br/>
The Muslim difference :  defining the line between believers and unbelievers from early Islam to the present / 
Youshaa Patel 
 - New Haven :  Yale University Press,  2022 
 - (341 p.) 
<br/><br/> How did Muslims across time and place define the line between themselves and their neighbors? Youshaa Patel explores why the Prophet Muhammad first advised his followers to emulate Christians and Jews, but then allegedly reversed course, urging them to "be different!" He details how subsequent generations of Muslim scholars canonized the Prophet's admonition into an influential doctrine against imitation that enjoined ordinary believers to embody and display their religious difference in public life. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780300248968 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>217