Steven Barboza is a journalist and a practicing Muslim (a convert). He writes in the Introduction to this 1993 book, "My intention was not to write a theological treatise nor to write a book about highly politicized secret societies that operate surreptitiously on the fringes of Islam. This is not a book about 'Muslim radicals' or 'Islamic extremists,' although the views of subjects I've included sometimes widely diverge from the mainstream. Rather, this work was undertaken principally to feel the pulse of Islamic society in America, to tell what is happening in a community of millions of converts to a religion that is so steeped in myth it remains as mysterious to most Americans as a woman behind a veil."

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