Zaid Adhami
Author and scholar of American Islam whose book Dilemmas of Authenticity: The American Muslim Crisis of Faith (UNC Press, 2025) examines doubt, authenticity, and religious life through ethnographic research and conversations with American Muslims.
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Feb 11, 2026 • 1h 46min
Zaid Adhami, "Dilemmas of Authenticity: The American Muslim Crisis of Faith" (UNC Press, 2025)
Zaid Adhami, scholar of American Islam and author of Dilemmas of Authenticity, explores how modern demands for personal authenticity shape doubts and recommitments among American Muslims. He discusses ethnographic fieldwork, authenticity’s double edge, competing claims of revivalist piety and individualized faith, and how identity as inheritance versus chosen belief creates dilemmas in lived religious practice.
