Remaking Islam in African Portugal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remaking Islam in African Portugal write by Michelle Johnson. This book was released on 2020-09-01. Remaking Islam in African Portugal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Guinean Muslims leave their homeland, they encounter radically new versions of Islam and new approaches to religion more generally. In Remaking Islam in African Portugal, Michelle C. Johnson explores the religious lives of these migrants in the context of diaspora. Since Islam arrived in West Africa centuries ago, Muslims in this region have long conflated ethnicity and Islam, such that to be Mandinga or Fula is also to be Muslim. But as they increasingly encounter Muslims not from Africa, as well as other ways of being Muslim, they must question and revise their understanding of "proper" Muslim belief and practice. Many men, in particular, begin to separate African custom from global Islam. Johnson maintains that this cultural intersection is highly gendered as she shows how Guinean Muslim men in Lisbon—especially those who can read Arabic, have made the pilgrimage to Mecca, and attend Friday prayer at Lisbon's central mosque—aspire to be cosmopolitan Muslims. By contrast, Guinean women—many of whom never studied the Qur'an, do not read Arabic, and feel excluded from the mosque—remain more comfortably rooted in African custom. In response, these women have created a "culture club" as an alternative Muslim space where they can celebrate life course rituals and Muslim holidays on their own terms. Remaking Islam in African Portugal highlights what being Muslim means in urban Europe and how Guinean migrants' relationships to their ritual practices must change as they remake themselves and their religion.
Islam in the African-American Experience
Islam in the African-American Experience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islam in the African-American Experience write by Richard Brent Turner. This book was released on 2003. Islam in the African-American Experience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The involvement of African Americans with Islam reaches back to the earliest days of the African presence in North America. This book explores these roots in the Middle East, West Africa and antebellum America.
Muslims and New Media in West Africa
Muslims and New Media in West Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Muslims and New Media in West Africa write by Dorothea E. Schulz. This book was released on 2012. Muslims and New Media in West Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although Islam is not new to West Africa, new patterns of domestic economies, the promise of political liberalization, and the proliferation of new media have led to increased scrutiny of Islam in the public sphere. Dorothea E. Schulz shows how new media have created religious communities that are far more publicly engaged than they were in the past. Muslims and New Media in West Africa expands ideas about religious life in West Africa, women's roles in religion, religion and popular culture, the meaning of religious experience in a charged environment, and how those who consume both religion and new media view their public and private selves.
Twenty-First Century Arab and African Diasporas in Spain, Portugal and Latin America
Twenty-First Century Arab and African Diasporas in Spain, Portugal and Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Twenty-First Century Arab and African Diasporas in Spain, Portugal and Latin America write by Cristián H. Ricci. This book was released on 2022-12-30. Twenty-First Century Arab and African Diasporas in Spain, Portugal and Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume considers the Arabic and African diasporas through the underexplored Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Africans, and Mahjari (South American and Mexican authors of Arab descent) experiences in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. Utilizing both established and emerging approaches, the authors explore the ways in which individual writers and artists negotiate the geographical, cultural, and historical parameters of their own diasporic trajectories influenced by their particular locations at home and elsewhere. At the same time, this volume sheds light on issues related to Spain, Portugal, and Latin American racial, ethnic, and sexual boundaries; the appeal of images of the Middle East and Africa in the contemporary marketplace; and the role of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American economic crunches in shaping attitudes towards immigration. This collection of thought-provoking chapters extends the concepts of diaspora and transnationalism, forcing the reader to reassess their present limitations as interpretive tools. In the process, Afro-Hispanic, Afro-Portuguese, and Mahjaris are rendered visible as national actors and transnational citizens.
Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town
Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town write by Adeline Masquelier. This book was released on 2009-10-02. Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the small town of Dogondoutchi, Niger, Malam Awal, a charismatic Sufi preacher, was recruited by local Muslim leaders to denounce the practices of reformist Muslims. Malam Awal's message has been viewed as a mixed blessing by Muslim women who have seen new definitions of Islam and Muslim practice impact their place and role in society. This study follows the career of Malam Awal and documents the engagement of women in the religious debates that are refashioning their everyday lives. Adeline Masquelier reveals how these women have had to define Islam on their own terms, especially as a practice that governs education, participation in prayer, domestic activities, wedding customs, and who wears the veil and how. Masquelier's richly detailed narrative presents new understandings of what it means to be a Muslim woman in Africa today.
