Islam and the Americas

In case studies that include the Caribbean, South America, Mexico, and the United States, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume trace the establishment of Islam in the Americas over the past four centuries. They simultaneously explore Muslims' lived experiences and the ways Islam ha...

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Main Author: Khan, Aisha (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Gainesville University Press of Florida 2015
In:Year: 2015
Series/Journal:New World Diasporas
New World Diasporas Ser.
Further subjects:B Islam -- North America
B Muslims ; South America
B Muslims ; North America
B Muslims -- South America
B Islam ; South America
B Electronic books
B Islam -- South America
B Islam ; North America
B Muslims -- North America
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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505 8 0 |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: A Storied Hemisphere; 2. Contours: Approaching Islam, Comparatively Speaking; Part I. Histories: Presence, Absence, Remaking; 3. "Oriental Hieroglyphics Understood Only by the Priesthood and a Chosen Few": The Islamic Orientalism of White and Black Masons and Shriners; 4. Locating Mecca: Religious and Political Discord in the Javanese Community in Pre-Independence Suriname; 5. Fear of a Brown Planet: Pan-Islamism, Black Nationalism, and the Tribal Twenties 
505 8 0 |a 6. Insha'Allah/Ojalá, Yes Yes Y'all: Puerto Ricans (Re)examining and (Re)imagining Their Identities through Islam and Hip HopPart II. Circulation of Identities, Politics of Belonging; 7. Between Terror and Transcendence: Global Narratives of Islam and the Political Scripts of Guadeloupe's Indianité; 8. The Politics of Conversion to Islam in Southern Mexico; 9. Bahamian and Brazilian Muslimahs: Struggle for Identity and Belonging; Part III. Spatial Practices and the Trinidadian Landscape; 10. "Up Against a Wall": Muslim Women's Struggle to Reclaim Masjid Space in Trinidad and Tobago 
505 8 0 |a 11. Democracy, Gender, and Indian Muslim Modernity in Trinidad12. More Than Dawud and Jalut: Decriminalizing the Jamaat al Muslimeen and Madressa in Trinidad; 13. Island Currents, Global Aesthetics: Islamic Iconography in Trinidad; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z 
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