Crescent Over Another Horizon by Maria del Mar Logroño Narbona

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The subjects of the essays transition from imperialism (with studies of morisco converts to Christianity, West African slave uprisings, and Muslim and Hindu South Asian indentured laborers in Dutch Suriname) to the contemporary Muslim presence in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Trinidad, completed by a timely examination of the United States, including Muslim communities in 'Hispanicized' South Florida and the agency of Latina conversion. Book Depository is the worlds most international online bookstore offering over million books with free delivery worldwide. Throughout each analysis-spanning times of inquisition, conquest, repressive nationalism, and anti-terror security protocols-the authors offer innovative frameworks to probe the ways in which racialized Islam has facilitated the building of new national identities while fostering a double-edged marginalization. Latino America in the Umma/the Umma in Latino America (John Tofik Karam, Mara del Mar Logroo Narbona, and Paulo G. 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.īringing 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.

Brimming with revelations that synthesize area and ethnic studies, Crescent over Another Horizon presents a portrait of Islam's unity as it evolved through plural formulations of identity, power, and belonging. Muslims have been shaping the Americas and the Caribbean for more than five hundred years, yet this interplay is frequently overlooked or misconstrued.

Crescent Over Another Horizon by Maria del Mar Logroño Narbona