Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean

by Aliyah Khan

Book Overview

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, Khan argues for a historical continuity of Afro- and Indo-Muslim presence and cultural production in the Caribbean. Case studies explored range from Arabic-language...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9766408041
• ISBN13: 9789766408046
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"