Word: zeghal
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...rest of the Muslim world is watching how reform takes hold in the American Muslim community. Throughout the world, Muslims have been forced to explore the meaning of their beliefs. But as Malika Zeghal, a visiting scholar of Islam at the University of Chicago Divinity School, points out, it is in America, with its freedoms, that Muslims can reform not just their souls but also their communities. "In the rest of the world, Muslims are making change in the inner world," she says. "American Muslims also feel empowered to make change externally...