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Title Islam and the Americas / edited by Aisha Khan.

Publication Info. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series New world diasporas
New World diasporas series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Islam -- North America.
Islam.
North America.
Islam -- South America.
South America.
Muslims -- North America.
Muslims.
Muslims -- South America.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Khan, Aisha, 1955- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Islam and the Americas 9780813060132 (DLC) 2014033318 (OCoLC)890912495
ISBN 9780813055077 electronic book
0813055075 electronic book
9780813060132
0813060133