"Given the intense scrutiny of Muslims, The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Race is an outstanding reference to key topics related to Islam and racialization. Comprising over 40 chapters by nearly 50 international contributors, the Handbook covers 30 countries on 6 continents examining an array of subjects including: Chinese, Russian, Iranian, and Palestinian Muslims as racialized others Hip-Hop, Islam, and race Sexuality, gender, and race in Muslim spaces Islamophobia and race Racializing Muslim youth Islam, media, and photographing race Central issues are explored in Muslim societies but also in Muslim-minority countries like Mexico, Finland, Brazil, New Zealand, and South Africa for topics such as race and color in the Qur'an, law, slavery, conversion, multiculturalism, blackness, whiteness and otherness. The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Race is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies and postcolonial studies. The Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields such as art and architecture, literature, ethnic studies, Black and Africana studies, sociology, history, anthropology, and global studies"--
Given the intense scrutiny of Muslims, The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Race is an outstanding reference to key topics related to Islam and racialization.
Given the intense scrutiny of Muslims, The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Race is an outstanding reference to key topics related to Islam and racialization. Comprising over 40 chapters by nearly 50 international contributors, the Handbook covers 30 countries on six continents examining an array of subjects including
- Chinese, Russian, Iranian, and Palestinian Muslims as racialized others
- Hip-Hop, Islam, and race
- Sexuality, gender, and race in Muslim spaces
- Islamophobia and race
- Racializing Muslim youth
- Islam, media, photography and race
Central issues are explored not only in Muslim societies but also in Muslim-minority countries like Mexico, Finland, Brazil, New Zealand, and South Africa for topics such as race and color in the Quran, law, slavery, conversion, multiculturalism, blackness, whiteness, and otherness.
The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Race is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies and postcolonial studies. The Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields such as art and architecture, literature, ethnic studies, Black and Africana studies, sociology, history, anthropology, and global studies.
Introduction: A Tribute to Dr. Akbar Muammad; PART 1: North America;
1.
What is this "Black" in Black Muslim?: Notes on Islam and Race in Modern
America;
2. From Bahia to Black Lives Matter: Black Islam in the United
States, Anti-Colonialism, and a Long History of Resistance;
3. Race,
Religion, Gender, and Authenticity: Mapping South Asian Muslimness in the
U.S.;
4. Legally White, Socially Brown: Racialization of Middle Eastern
Americans;
5. Islam, Whiteness, and American Muslims;
6. Racializing Muslim
Youth and the French-Canadian Imaginary;
7. Canadian Muslim Youth,
Islamophobia, and the Racialization of Identity;
8. Dreams of al-Andalus:
Latinx Muslims Re-Imagining Race as Quadruple Minorities;
9. Being Muslim and
Mayan in a Catholic Country: Conversion to Islam in Mexico; PART 2: Caribbean
and South America;
10. Racialization and Ethnicity among Muslims in Jamaica;
11. Islam and Race in Argentina;
12. Bismillah Brazil!: Islam, Race, and
Hip-Hop; PART 3: Europe;
13. "Turkifiers Are Worse Than Turks": The Racial
Predicament of Bosniak Muslims;
14. Between Race and Religion:
Multiculturalism and Islamophobia in Britain;
15. Islam, Race, and Public
Discourse in Finland: Racialization and Religionization;
16. The Racial
Realities of French Muslims: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Issues;
17.
Mapping the History of the Racialization of Islam and Muslims in Germany;
18.
White Voices: Muslim Women Converts, Whiteness and the Recitation of the
Quran in Berlin;
19. Chief Black Eunuchs of The Ottoman Empire: Their Roles,
Accomplishments and Efforts to (Re)Create Family;
20. Islam (Muslims) and
Race in Poland;
21. Racialization of Muslims in Russia and the Soviet Union;
22. Proto-Racism in Early Modern Spain: Moriscos as a Racialized Religious
Minority;
23. The Racialization and Agency of Muslims in Spain; PART 4:
Africa;
24. Islam and Race in Egypt;
25. Racial Transitions: Islam,
Transitional Justice, and Moroccos (Re)Africanization;
26. Swahili Arabic:
Imitation, Islam, and the Semiotics of Race in Zanzibar;
27.
"Unapologetically Black, Unapologetically Muslim": Islam and the Paradox of
Race among South African Muslims;
28. Re-examining Timbuktu: Race, Space, and
Islam in a Medieval Sahelian City;
29. Racialization and Islam in Equatorial
Guinea, 1950-1979;
30. Racialized Blackness in Early Arabic Literature:
Gendering, Classing, and Community Construction;
31. Virtues of the abasha:
Exploring Blackness in Islamicate Texts; PART 5: Asia;
32. Piety, Morality
and Ethno-Racialization: The Uyghur Quest for Modernity Under Chinese
Colonialism;
33. Racialized Thinking and the Hui Minzu in China;
34.
Contextualizing Islam, Slavery, and Orientalism in 19th-Century Iranian
Photography;
35. The Diasporic Location of Islam, Race, and Love in Iranian
Cinema: The Case of Majid Majidis Brn;
36. Islam, Race, and Ethnicity in
Saudi Arabia;
37. Racial Formations in Israel/Palestine: Racializing
Religion, Constructing Hierarchy;
38. Sexuality, Racial Spaces, and Muslim
Others in Pakistan;
39. Race and the Politics of Enumeration: British
Colonial Indias Impact on Twelver Shii Identity;
40. Race, Ethnicity and
Identity: The Moros of the Philippines;
41. Islam and Race in Afghanistan:
From the Lost Tribes to Contemporary Imaginations; PART 6: Oceania;
42.
Australian Muslims and the Question of Race;
43. The Unpredictability of
Extreme Islamophobia: Muslims, Violence, and Race in New Zealand
Zain Abdullah is an independent scholar, consultant, curator and associate professor emeritus of Religion & Society and Islamic Studies at Temple University, USA. Dr. Abdullah has held national directorships and convened numerous programs. His lectures and writings cover topics on religion and society, race and Africana, and art and culture.