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 1327 | PDF Downloads 590 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.548Page 1-26
Muslims at the American Vigil
Abstract 637 | PDF Downloads 404 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.547Page 26-60
Blackamerican Muslim Scholars and Leaders in New York City
Abstract 464 | PDF Downloads 406 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.549Page 61-88
Review Essay
A Question of Presence and Agency
Abstract 717 | PDF Downloads 332 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.607Page 89-99
Book Reviews
Islam and World History
Abstract 715 | PDF Downloads 549 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.657Page 100-103
Modern Things on Trial
Abstract 588 | PDF Downloads 266 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.658Page 104-107
Sharī‘a Scripts
Abstract 398 | PDF Downloads 183 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.661Page 108-109
Islam without Europe
Abstract 569 | PDF Downloads 384 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.662Page 110-112
Faith and Resistance
Abstract 425 | PDF Downloads 224 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.663Page 113-116
Radical Love
Abstract 580 | PDF Downloads 393 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.665Page 119-121
Research Handbook on Islamic Law and Society
Abstract 526 | PDF Downloads 410 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.606Page 121-124
Images of the Prophet Muhammad in English Literature
Abstract 617 | PDF Downloads 490 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.666Page 125-128
Mediating Islam and Modernity
Abstract 634 | PDF Downloads 515 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.667Page 128-131
Forum
Latina Muslim Producers of Online and Literary Countermedia
Abstract 462 | PDF Downloads 298 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.668Page 132-155
Guest Editorial
Guest Editorial
Abstract 328 | PDF Downloads 186 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v36i4.670Page v-viii