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    Many Texas Muslim Lives

    Worshippers gathered inside an ornate mosque prayer hall.
    Omar Afra examines the differences within Texas Muslim life: language, race, class, generation, geography and religious tradition. The analysis follows connections between communities while resisting a single label as an adequate description.
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