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Title Islam and the Americas / edited by Aisha Khan
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series New world diasporas
New World diasporas series.
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Islam -- North America
Islam -- South America
Muslims -- North America
Muslims -- South America
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Islam
Muslims
North America
South America
Form Electronic book
Author Khan, Aisha, 1955- editor.
ISBN 9780813055077
0813055075
9780813059945
0813059941