Far from Mecca : globalizing the Muslim Caribbean /

Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean is the first academic work on Muslims in the English-speaking Caribbean. Khan focuses on the fiction, poetry and music of Islam in Guyana, Trinidad and Jamaica, combining archival research, ethnography and literary analysis to argue for a historical c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Khan, Aliyah, 1981- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2020]
Series:Critical Caribbean studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Muslims in/of the Caribbean
  • 1. Black Literary Islam: Enslaved Learned Men in Jamaica, and the Hidden Sufi Aesthetic
  • 2. Silence and Suicide: Indo-Caribbean Fullawomen in Post-Plantation Modernity
  • 3. The Marvelous Muslim: Limbo, Logophagy, and Islamic Indigeneity in Guyana's El Dorado
  • 4. "Muslim Time": The Muslimeen Coup and Calypso in the Trinidad Imaginary
  • 5. Mimic Man and Ethnorientalist: Global Caribbean Islam and the Specter of Terror
  • Conclusion: "Gods, I Suppose"
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography.