Africa
Aisha Khan
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black nationalism
Brazil
Caribbean
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conversion
culture
diaspora
diversity
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ethnography
gender
Gilded Age
globalization
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hip hop
history
iconography
immigration
India
Islam and the Americas
jamaat al Muslimeen
Java
Latin America
Madressa
Malcolm X
masjid space
Mason
Mexico
modernity
Muslim
Orientalism
Pan-Islamism
Puerto Rico
religion
Shriner
Suriname
transnational
Trinidad and Tobago
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- ISBN 9780813060132
- Weight: 643g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2015
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 has been shaped in the New World - by “Muslim minority” societies such as the Shriners; through the Gilded Age’s fascination with Orientalism; in the embrace of Islam by American black intellectuals like Malcolm X and the Black Power movement; and by the ways hip hop artists re-create and reimagine Muslim identities.
Together the twelve essays challenge the typical view of Islam as timeless, predictable, and opposed to Western worldviews and value systems, showing how the religion continually engages with issues of culture, class, gender, and race.
Together the twelve essays challenge the typical view of Islam as timeless, predictable, and opposed to Western worldviews and value systems, showing how the religion continually engages with issues of culture, class, gender, and race.
Aisha Khan is associate professor of anthropology at New York University. She is author of Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad.
