An edition of Islam and the Americas
(2015)
Islam and the Americas
by Aisha Khan
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This volume edited by Aisha Khan explores Muslims' lived experiences in the Western Hemisphere and the ways in which Islam has been codified in the New World by "Muslim minority" societies, using disparate case studies from the Caribbean, Suriname, Brazil, Mexico, and others in the Atlantic World.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: A storied hemisphere / Aisha Khan
Contours: approaching Islam, comparatively speaking / Aisha Khan
Histories: presence, absence, remaking
"Oriental hieroglyphics understood only by the priesthood and a choosen few": the Islamic orientalism
Of white and black masons and shriners / Jacob S. Dorman
Locating Mecca: religious and political discord in the Javanese community in pre-independence Suriname / Rosemarijn Hoefte
Fear of a brown planet: Pan-Islamism, black nationalism, and the tribal twenties / Nathaniel Deutsch
insha{p}Allah/Ojalá, yes yes y'all: Puerto Ricans (re)examining and (re)imagining their identities through Islam and hip hop / Omar Ramadan-Santiago
Circulation of identities, politics of belonging
Between terror and transcendence: global narratives of Islam and the political scripts of Guadeloupe's Indianity / Yarimar Bonilla
The politics of conversion to Islam in southern Mexico / Sandra Cañas Cuevas
Bahamian and Brazilian Muslimahs: struggle for identity and belonging / Jerusa Ali
Spatial practices and the Trinidadian landscape
"Up against a wall"?: Muslim women's struggle to reclaim Masjid space in Trinidad and Tobago / Rhoda Reddock
Democracy, gender, and Indian Muslim modernity in Trinidad / Gabrielle Jamela Hosein
More than Dawud and Jalut: decriminalizing the Jamaat al Muslimeen and Madressa in Trinidad / Jeanne P. Baptiste
Island currents, global aesthetics: Islamic iconography in Trinidad / Patricia Mohammed.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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