Muslim Space As Third Space.

The inclusion that I Muslim Space i seeks and practices is challenging to other Muslim communities that are trying to clarify a unitive and authorized Islamic tradition. Articulation, or as Bhabha puts it, enunciation, is a political act, reshaping the communities on both sides of the imagined border, the traditional mosque community, other Third Space experiments, and the wider social networks of religious expression. In 2017, a group of women began to meet casually, and then more intentionally, to talk about their experiences in traditional mosques and the kind of Islamic experience they might want for themselves and for their families in Austin, Texas. They describe its mission as follows: I Muslim Space, a non-profit, is a Muslim community organization that fosters an open, inclusive, multicultural, and pluralistic space for self-identifying Muslims and the larger Austin community. [Extracted from the article]