Islam and the Americas

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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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Full title :Islam and the Americas / edited by Aisha Khan.

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Publication Date:©2015

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Publisher(s):University Press of Florida
Place of Publication:Gainesville
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

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Description:352 pages ; : 24 cm

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ISBN:9780813060132, 0813060133
oclc:ocn967163802
LC Classification:BP67.A1

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 To…

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