By Aisha Khan

ISBN-10: 0813054052

ISBN-13: 9780813054056

ISBN-10: 0813060133

ISBN-13: 9780813060132

"A journey de strength that underwrites and shifts the petrified snapshot of Islam disseminated through mainstream media."--Walter D. Mignolo, writer of The Darker part of Western Modernity

"Gives us a wholly various photo of Muslims within the Americas than are available within the validated literature. a posh glimpse of the wealthy variety and historic intensity of Muslim presence within the Caribbean and Latin America."--Katherine Pratt Ewing, editor of Being and Belonging: Muslim groups within the usa due to the fact 9/11

"Finally a broad-ranging comparative paintings exploring the roots of Islam within the Americas! Drawing upon clean ancient and ethnographic examine, this ebook asks very important questions on the politics of tradition and globalization of faith within the glossy world."--Keith E. McNeal, writer of Trance and Modernity within the Southern Caribbean

In case reviews that come with the Caribbean, Latin the United States, and the us, the participants to this interdisciplinary quantity hint the institution of Islam within the Americas over the last 3 centuries. They concurrently discover Muslims’ lived stories and think about the methods Islam has been formed within the "Muslim minority" societies within the New global, together with the Gilded Age’s fascination with Orientalism, the gendered interpretations of doctrine between Muslim immigrants and native converts, the embody of Islam by way of African American activist-intellectuals like Malcolm X, and the methods transnational hip hop artists re-create and reimagine Muslim identities.

Together, those essays problem the common view of Islam as undying, predictable, and against Western worldviews and price platforms, exhibiting how this non secular culture regularly engages with neighborhood and worldwide problems with tradition, gender, type, and race.

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