Islam and the Americas /edited by Aisha Khan.
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource
- New world diasporas .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: A storied hemisphere / Contours: approaching Islam, comparatively speaking / 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 / inshaAllah/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 / Aisha Khan -- Aisha Khan -- Jacob S. Dorman -- Rosemarijn Hoefte -- Nathaniel Deutsch -- Omar Ramadan-Santiago -- Yarimar Bonilla -- Sandra Cañas Cuevas -- Jerusa Ali -- Rhoda Reddock -- Gabrielle Jamela Hosein -- Jeanne P. Baptiste -- Patricia Mohammed.
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.