ISBN:
9780813060132
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
IX, 348 S.
,
Ill.
Serie:
New world diasporas
DDC:
305.6/97097
Schlagwort(e):
Islam
;
Islam
;
Muslims
;
Muslims
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
USA
;
Mittelamerika
;
Karibik
;
Südamerika
;
Islam
Kurzfassung:
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
Kurzfassung:
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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Introduction: A storied hemisphere
,
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
,
Locating Mecca: religious and political discord in the Javanese community in pre-independence Suriname
,
Fear of a brown planet: Pan-Islamism, black nationalism, and the tribal twenties
,
insha{p}Allah/Ojalá, yes yes y'all: Puerto Ricans (re)examining and (re)imagining their identities through Islam and hip hop
,
Circulation of identities, politics of belonging ; Between terror and transcendence: global narratives of Islam and the political scripts of Guadeloupe's Indianity
,
The politics of conversion to Islam in southern Mexico
,
Bahamian and Brazilian Muslimahs: struggle for identity and belonging
,
Spatial practices and the Trinidadian landscape ; "Up against a wall"?: Muslim women's struggle to reclaim Masjid space in Trinidad and Tobago
,
Democracy, gender, and Indian Muslim modernity in Trinidad
,
More than Dawud and Jalut: decriminalizing the Jamaat al Muslimeen and Madressa in Trinidad
,
Island currents, global aesthetics: Islamic iconography in Trinidad
URL:
http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=KHANX002
URL:
http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=KHANX002
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