Far from Mecca

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 Autobiographical And Religious Texts Written By Enslaved Sufi West Africans In Nineteenth-Century Jamaica, To Early Twentieth-Century Fictions Of Post-Indenture South Asian Muslim Indigeneity And El Dorado, To The Attempted Government Coup In 1990 By The Jamaat Al-Muslimeen In Trinidad, As Well As The Island’S Calypso Music, To Contemporary Judicial Cases Concerning Caribbean Muslims And Global Terrorism. Khan Argues That The Caribbean Muslim Subject, The “Fullaman”, A Performative Identity That Relies On Gendering And Racializing Islam, Troubles Discourses Of Creolization That Are Fundamental To Postcolonial Nationalisms In The Caribbean.