The papers in this special issue and the one preceding it have their roots in a panel titled "Ethnography, Misrepresentations of Islam, and Advocacy", which Timothy Daniels and I organized for the 116th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. We were joined on this panel by Alisa Perkins, Katrina Thompson, Robert Hefner, and Yamil Avivi, where we all grappled with our struggles with the increasingly political nature of our work on Islam. Although we work in a variety of geographic regions, with diverse subjects, we all shared similar concerns regarding the complexity of accurately depicting the Muslim communities we study while challenging the anti-Muslim stereotypes that exist in popular culture and contemporary news media. At the same time, we did not wish to reify popular divisions between "good" and "bad" Muslims or inaccurately depict the lives of our research subjects in order to cater to that popular division.
Guest Editor:
Meryem F. Zaman
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Social Science Department
Borough of Manhattan Community College
City University of New York
Guest Editorial
Guest Editorial
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Articles
Resisting Islamophobia
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Muslims at the American Vigil
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Blackamerican Muslim Scholars and Leaders in New York City
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Review Essay
A Question of Presence and Agency
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Book Reviews
Islam and World History
Abstract 363 | PDF Downloads 32 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.657Page 100-103
Modern Things on Trial
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Sharī‘a Scripts
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Islam without Europe
Abstract 299 | PDF Downloads 37 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.662Page 110-112
Faith and Resistance
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Radical Love
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Research Handbook on Islamic Law and Society
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Images of the Prophet Muhammad in English Literature
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Mediating Islam and Modernity
Abstract 368 | PDF Downloads 48 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.667Page 128-131
Forum
Latina Muslim Producers of Online and Literary Countermedia
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