Far from Mecca : globalizing the Muslim Caribbean / Aliyah Khan.

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Introduction: Muslims in/of the Caribbean -- 1. Black Literary Islam: Enslaved Learned Men in Jamaica, and the Hidden Sufi Aesthetic -- 2. Silence and Suicide: Indo-Caribbean Fullawomen in Post-Plantation Modernity -- 3. The Marvelous Muslim: Limbo, Logophagy, and Islamic Indigeneity in Guyana's El Dorado -- 4. "Muslim Time": The Muslimeen Coup and Calypso in the Trinidad Imaginary -- 5. Mimic Man and Ethnorientalist: Global Caribbean Islam and the Specter of Terror -- Conclusion: "Gods, I Suppose" -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography.

"Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean is the first academic work on Muslims in the English-speaking Caribbean. Khan focuses on the fiction, poetry and music of Islam in Guyana, Trinidad, and Jamaica, combining archival research, ethnography, and literary analysis to argue for a historical continuity of Afro- and Indo-Muslim presence and cultural production in the Caribbean: from Arabic-language autobiographical and religious texts written by enslaved Sufi West Africans in nineteenth century Jamaica, to early twentieth century fictions of post-indenture South Asian Muslim indigeneity and El Dorado, to the 1990 Jamaat al-Muslimeen attempted government coup in Trinidad and its calypso music, to judicial cases of contemporary interaction between Caribbean Muslims and global terrorism. Khan argues that the Caribbean Muslim subject, the "fullaman," a performative identity that relies on gendering and racializing Islam, troubles discourses of creolization that are fundamental to postcolonial nationalisms in the Caribbean"-- Provided by publisher

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