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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 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.

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Author:   Zain Abdullah (Temple University, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9780367179854

ISBN 10:   0367179857
Pages:   728
Publication Date:   03 December 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: A Tribute to Dr. Akbar Muḥammad; 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 Morocco’s (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 Ḥabasha: 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 Majidi’s Bārān; 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 India’s Impact on Twelver Shi’i 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"

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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.

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