Islam and the Americas

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8130-5405-6
Verlag: University Press of Florida

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: New World Diasporas

In case studies that include the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume trace the establishment of Islam in the Americas over the past three centuries. They simultaneously explore Muslims’ lived experiences and examine the ways Islam has been shaped in the “Muslim minority” societies in the New World, including the Gilded Age’s fascination with Orientalism, the gendered interpretations of doctrine among Muslim immigrants and local converts, the embrace of Islam by African American activist-intellectuals like Malcolm X, and the ways transnational hip hop artists re-create and reimagine Muslim identities.Together, these essays challenge the typical view of Islam as timeless, predictable, and opposed to Western worldviews and value systems, showing how this religious tradition continually engages with local and global issues of culture, gender, class, and race.

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Über Autor(innen)

Aisha Khan is associate professor of anthropology at New York University, USA. She is the author of Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad.