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Crescent over Another Horizon: Islam in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino USA

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Muslims have been shaping the Americas and the Caribbean for more than five hundred years, yet this interplay is frequently overlooked or misconstrued. Brimming with revelations that synthesize area and ethnic studies, Crescent over Another Horizon presents a portrait of Islam’s unity as it evolved through plural formulations of identity, power, and belonging. Offering a Latino American perspective on a wider Islamic world, the editors overturn the conventional perception of Muslim communities in the New World, arguing that their characterization as “minorities” obscures the interplay of ethnicity and religion that continues to foster transnational ties. Bringing together studies of Iberian colonists, enslaved Africans, indentured South Asians, migrant Arabs, and Latino and Latin American converts, the volume captures the power-laden processes at work in religious conversion or resistance. Throughout each analysis—spanning times of inquisition, conquest, repressive nationalism, and anti-terror security protocols—the authors offer innovative frameworks to probe the ways in which racialized Islam has facilitated the building of new national identities while fostering a double-edged marginalization. The subjects of the essays transition from imperialism (with studies of morisco converts to Christianity, West African slave uprisings, and Muslim and Hindu South Asian indentured laborers in Dutch Suriname) to the contemporary Muslim presence in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Trinidad, completed by a timely examination of the United States, including Muslim communities in “Hispanicized” South Florida and the agency of Latina conversion. The result is a fresh perspective that opens new horizons for a vibrant range of fields.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Latino America in the Umma/the Umma in Latino America (John Tofik Karam, María del Mar Logroño Narbona, and Paulo G. Pinto) Part I: Reconsidering History Chapter One. "De los Prohibidos": Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America (Karoline P. Cook) Chapter Two. African Rebellion and Refuge on the Edge of Empire (John Tofik Karam) Chapter Three. Ethnic and Religious Identification among Muslim East Indians in Suriname (1898–1954) (Ellen Bal and Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff) Part II. Contemporary Cartographies Chapter Four. Institutionalizing Islam in Argentina: Comparing Community and Identity Configurations (Silvia Montenegro) Chapter Five. Conversion, Revivalism, and Tradition: The Religious Dynamics of Muslim Communities in Brazil (Paulo G. Pinto) Chapter Six. Guests of Islam: Conversion and the Institutionalization of Islam in Mexico (Camila Pastor de Maria y Campos) Chapter Seven. Cubans Searching for a New Faith in a New Context (Luis Mesa Delmonte) Chapter Eight. Muslims in Martinique (Liliane Kuczynski) Chapter Nine. Forming Islamic Religious Identity among Trinidadians in the Age of Social Networks (Halima-Sacadia Kassim) Part III. Islam Latina/o Chapter Ten. Dis-covering a Historical Consciousness: The Creation of a US Latina/o Muslim Identity (Hjamil A. Martínez-Vázquez) Chapter Eleven. Mapping Muslim Communities in "Hispanicized" South Florida (Mirsad Krijestorac) Chapter Twelve. Double-Edged Marginality and Agency: Latina Conversion to Islam (Yesenia King and Michael P. Perez) Conclusion List of Contributors Index

About the Author :
Maria del Mar Logroño Narbona is an assistant professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at Florida International University. Paulo G. Pinto is a professor of anthropology at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, where he also directs the Center for Middle East Studies. His previous books include Ethnographies of Islam: Ritual Performances and Everyday Practices. John Tofik Karam is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of the award-winning book Another Arabesque: Syrian-Lebanese Ethnicity in Neoliberal Brazil.

Review :
[A] welcome addition to the growing but still relatively sparse literature on Muslims in the Americas...should be on the bookshelf of any reader wanting to learn more about the activities and histories of Muslims...this collection will inspire further study of Islam's half-millenium presence in the New World.-- "New West Indian Guide" (11/1/2017 12:00:00 AM) [Crescent over Another Horizon questions] the supposed dichotomies between Islam and an idea of the West, rhetorically constructed in opposition to an idea of the East and Islam...a new geography is sought throughout the volume in which place does not frame who individuals are supposed to be but is the space from which one relates to the world.-- "Latin American Research Review" (12/22/2020 12:00:00 AM) Crescent Over Another Horizon counteracts the tendency to locate Islam in the othered spaces of a nebulously constructed 'East'...Although the book operates across multiple scales and temporalities, its constituent parts mostly succeed in conveying Islam's dynamism in the regions under study.-- "H-Net Reviews" (6/1/2018 12:00:00 AM) Crescent Over Another Horizon deftly traces the intricate connections between Muslims and Islamic institutions in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Latina/o United States...this volume is an important and timely contribution to the study of religion in the Americas, relevant to both specialists and all scholars interested in the mutual constitution and contingency of religion, ethnicity, and identity.-- "Journal of the American Academy of Religion" (10/23/2017 12:00:00 AM) Crescent Over Another Horizon is a compelling and timely text. A critical resource for scholars and the general public alike, it not only challenges the exclusion of the Americas and Caribbean from Islamic scholarship but also demonstrates that understanding the historical and contemporary complexity of the Americas and Caribbean must include Islam. Both a resource and a provocation, it is a text that will undoubtedly set the standard for research to come.-- "Reading Religion" (4/11/2018 12:00:00 AM)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781477302293
  • Publisher: University of Texas Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Texas Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 356
  • Spine Width: 32 mm
  • Weight: 737 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1477302298
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2015
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Islam in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino USA
  • Width: 152 mm


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