Presented By: Global Islamic Studies Center
IISS Lecture Series. Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean
Aliyah Khan, GISC director and associate professor of Afroamerican and African Studies & English, University of Michigan
Aliyah Khan's book on Islam in the Caribbean, Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean (Rutgers University Press 2020), is the first scholarly monograph focusing on the literature and culture of enslaved African Muslims and indentured South Asian Indian Muslims in the Americas. Professor Khan’s work appears in publications including GLQ, the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, Caribbean Quarterly, the Journal of West Indian Literature, Pree: Caribbean Writing, and Guernica. Her interviews on the Caribbean and U.S. Islam, and on Muslim films, art, literature, and music have appeared on and in National Public Radio, the Washington Post, Religion News, American Muslim Today, The Polis Project, the Black Agenda Report, Sapelo Square, and Chicago’s Radio Islam, among other venues.
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