Although both these books explore Islam in the United States, Mucahit Bilici's Finding Mecca in America and Paul L Williams's Crescent Moon Rising could not be more different. This is due, in part, to their divergent approaches: academic in the case of Bilici (a sociology professor), and journalistic on the part of Williams (an investigative reporter who has written books such as The Day of Islam, Osama's Revenge, and The Al Qaeda Connection.)
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