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
Articles
Resisting Islamophobia
Abstract 1211 | PDF Downloads 426 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.548Page 1-26
Muslims at the American Vigil
Abstract 522 | PDF Downloads 258 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.547Page 26-60
Blackamerican Muslim Scholars and Leaders in New York City
Abstract 416 | PDF Downloads 329 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.549Page 61-88
Review Essay
A Question of Presence and Agency
Abstract 627 | PDF Downloads 233 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.607Page 89-99
Book Reviews
Islam and World History
Abstract 640 | PDF Downloads 411 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.657Page 100-103
Modern Things on Trial
Abstract 544 | PDF Downloads 213 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.658Page 104-107
Sharī‘a Scripts
Abstract 351 | PDF Downloads 143 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.661Page 108-109
Islam without Europe
Abstract 510 | PDF Downloads 258 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.662Page 110-112
Faith and Resistance
Abstract 309 | PDF Downloads 164 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.663Page 113-116
Radical Love
Abstract 535 | PDF Downloads 262 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.665Page 119-121
Research Handbook on Islamic Law and Society
Abstract 468 | PDF Downloads 311 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.606Page 121-124
Images of the Prophet Muhammad in English Literature
Abstract 556 | PDF Downloads 360 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.666Page 125-128
Mediating Islam and Modernity
Abstract 567 | PDF Downloads 377 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.667Page 128-131
Forum
Latina Muslim Producers of Online and Literary Countermedia
Abstract 417 | PDF Downloads 255 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.668Page 132-155
Guest Editorial
Guest Editorial
Abstract 301 | PDF Downloads 148 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.670Page v-viii