Medina by the Bay

From the Black Power movement and state surveillance to Silicon Valley and gentrification <i>Medina by the Bay</i> examines how multiracial Muslim communities in the San Francisco Bay Area survive and flourish within and against racial capitalist carceral and imperial logics. Weaving expansive histories peoples and geographies together in an ethnographic screenplay of cinematic scenes Maryam Kashani demonstrates how sociopolitical forces and geopolitical agendas shape Muslim ways of knowing and being. Throughout Kashani argues that contemporary Islam emerges from the specificities of the Bay Area from its landscapes and infrastructures to its Muslim liberal arts college mosques and prison courtyards. Theorizing the Medina by the Bay as a microcosm of socioeconomic demographic and political transformations in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries Kashani resituates Islam as liberatory and abolitionist theory theology and praxis for all those engaged in struggle.