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Book SynopsisDuring the last twenty years, public interest in Islam and how Muslims express their religious identity in Western societies has grown exponentially. In parallel, the study of Islam in the Canadian academy has grown in a number of fields since the 1970s, reflecting a diverse range of scholarship, positionalities, and politics. Yet, academic research on Muslims in Canada has not been systematically assessed.
In Producing Islam(s) in Canada, scholars from a wide range of disciplines come together to explore what is at stake regarding portrayals of Islam(s) and Muslims in academic scholarship. Given the centrality of representations of Canadian Muslims in current public policy and public imaginaries, which effects how all Canadians experience religious diversity, this analysis of knowledge production comes at a crucial time.
Table of ContentsPreface Amir Hussain Acknowledgments General Introduction: Producing Islam(s) and Muslims in Canada Jennifer A. Selby, Amélie Barras, and Melanie Adrian Section 1: Examining Knowledge Production on Islam Epistemologies of the “Muslim Question” in Europe: On the Politics of Knowledge Production in a Minefield Schirin Amir-Moazami Research Funding and the Production of Knowledge about Islam: The Case of SSHRC Aaron W. Hughes Creating Ecologies of Knowledge as a MENA Scholar in North America: An Interview with Dr. Lara Deeb Sahver Kuzucuoglu The Study of Islam(s) and Western Academia: An Interview with Anver Emon Rehan Sayeed Section 2: Charting the Study of Islam(s) and Muslims in Canada Who Are “Muslims in Canada”? An Analysis of the Qualitative Literature from 1997 to 2017 Jennifer A. Selby, Amélie Barras, and Lori G. Beaman Studying Muslim Minorities in Canada: Pitfalls Facing Researchers Attempting to Turn a Racialized Category into a Category of Analysis Paul Eid Time for a “Hijab Ban”? The Hypervisibility of Veiling in Scholarship on Islam in North America Sadaf Ahmed Expressions of Sufism in Canada Meena Sharify-Funk and Jason Idriss Sparkes Unpacking Media Coverage, Islam, and Ismaili Muslims in Canada: An Interview with Karim H. Karim Mehmet Ali Basak The Relational Approach to Integration in Canada: An Interview with Abdie Kazemipur Sara Hamed Section 3: Positioning Selves Researching One’s Own Community: Reflections from Montreal, Canada Hicham Tiflati and Abdelaziz Djaout Cooking Up Research: Positionality and the Knowledge Production of Islam(s) Rachel Brown Fieldworking While Veiled: Autoethnography of a Brown + Muslim + Female Researcher in Quebec Roshan Arah Jahangeer The Interplay of Identity in Ethnographic Conversations: The Grammar of Recognition in Conversion Narratives Géraldine Mossière On Critical Muslim Studies, Anti-Islamophobia, and Canadian Islamic Schools: An Interview with Jasmin Zine Mehmet Ali Basak Section 4: Future Trends Mixed-Methods and Comparative Approaches to Studying Muslim Immigrant Women in Canada Catherine Holtmann Influencing the Public Imaginary: The Case of a Montreal Islamic School Melanie Adrian 2(b) or Not 2(b): The Expressive Value of the Niqab Natasha Bakht Gendering Everyday Islam, Border-Crossings, and the Production of “Alternative Knowledge” Parin Dossa Dancing between Academia and Activism: An Interview with Katherine Bullock Sara Hamed List of Contributors Index
