{"product_id":"crescent-over-another-horizon-9781477312186","title":"Crescent over Another Horizon","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuslims 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, \u003ci\u003eCrescent over Another Horizon\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing 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, c\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrescent Over Another Horizon\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrescent Over Another Horizon\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrescent Over Another Horizon\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e[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 *\u003cbr\u003e[\u003ci\u003eCrescent over Another Horizon\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLatino America in the Umma\/the Umma in Latino America (John Tofik Karam, María del Mar Logroño Narbona, and Paulo G. Pinto)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart I: Reconsidering History \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter One. \"De los Prohibidos\": Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America (Karoline P. Cook)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Two. African Rebellion and Refuge on the Edge of Empire (John Tofik Karam)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Three. Ethnic and Religious Identification among Muslim East Indians in Suriname (1898–1954) (Ellen Bal and Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart II. Contemporary Cartographies \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Four. Institutionalizing Islam in Argentina: Comparing Community and Identity Configurations (Silvia Montenegro)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Five. Conversion, Revivalism, and Tradition: The Religious Dynamics of Muslim Communities in Brazil (Paulo G. Pinto)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Six. Guests of Islam: Conversion and the Institutionalization of Islam in Mexico (Camila Pastor de Maria y Campos)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Seven. Cubans Searching for a New Faith in a New Context (Luis Mesa Delmonte)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Eight. Muslims in Martinique (Liliane Kuczynski)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Nine. Forming Islamic Religious Identity among Trinidadians in the Age of Social Networks (Halima-Sacadia Kassim)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart III. Islam Latina\/o \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Ten. Dis-covering a Historical Consciousness: The Creation of a US Latina\/o Muslim Identity (Hjamil A. Martínez-Vázquez)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Eleven. Mapping Muslim Communities in \"Hispanicized\" South Florida (Mirsad Krijestorac)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Twelve. Double-Edged Marginality and Agency: Latina Conversion to Islam (Yesenia King and Michael P. Perez)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867282485591,"sku":"9781477312186","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781477312186.jpg?v=1722282580","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/crescent-over-another-horizon-9781477312186","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}