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Title Islam and the Americas / edited by Aisha Khan.

Publication Info. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.697 I82IA    Check Shelf
Description ix, 348 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series New world diasporas
New World diasporas series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Subject Islam -- North America.
Islam -- South America.
Muslims -- North America.
Muslims -- South America.
Islam. (OCoLC)fst00979776
Muslims. (OCoLC)fst01031029
North America. (OCoLC)fst01242475
South America. (OCoLC)fst01244515
Islam. (DE-588)4027743-4
Religiöses Leben. (DE-588)4115741-2
Karibik. (DE-588)4073241-1
Added Author Khan, Aisha, 1955- editor.
ISBN 9780813060132
0813060133
9780813054056 (paperback)
0813054052 (paperback)
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