Aliyah Khan is an assistant professor of English and Afroamerican and African studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

• ContentsIntroduction Muslims in/of the Caribbean                                                                        1  Black Literary Islam: Enslaved Learned Men in Jamaica, and the Hidden Sufi Aesthetic                                           2  Silence and Suicide: Indo-Caribbean Fullawomen in Post-Plantation Modernity                                                    3  The Marvelous Muslim: Limbo, Logophagy, and Islamic Indigeneity in Guyana's El Dorado4  "Muslim Time": The Muslimeen Coup and Calypso in the Trinidad Imaginary    5   Mimic Man and Ethnorientalist: Global Caribbean Islam and the Specter of TerrorConclusion:     "Gods, I Suppose"                                                                                        AcknowledgmentsBibliography             About the Author

"There lies...intellectual rigour and the scholarly beauty [in] Far from Mecca: this book is intimately personal. Khan takes as her project to bear faithful witness to her own community, past, archival silencings, and liberatory possibilities."— Caribbean Quarterly"New Books Network - New Books in Caribbean Studies" interview with Aliyah Khanhttps://newbooksnetwork.com/aliyah-khan%E2%80%AFfar-from-mecca-globalizing-the-muslim-caribbean%E2%80%AFrutgers-up-2020/— New Books Network - New Books in Caribbean Studies"Khan's book demonstrates how scholars can both appreciate the particularities of the global Muslim experience and the nuanced history of religion in the Caribbean and the Americas....Far From Mecca is a gladly received correction to tired narratives about both global Islam and the Caribbean. My only hope is that it will provoke more conversations and research in this regard. Given Khan's erudite treatment of the subject, I have no reason to doubt that it will."— International Journal of Latin American Religions"Khan expands our imagination of what a global Muslim imaginary is, and why that matters. We can no longer understand Muslim communities outside of the Middle East and North Africa as peripheral to what Islam may mean, but rather as constitutive of a global ummah that plays a role in the formation of the many Muslim subjectivities everywhere."— Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies"With its focus on Muslim Caribbean life and literature, this book expands and challenges typical takes on and typical data for American religion, Islam in the Americas and around the world, and religion and literature. The book would be well worth a look for someone interested in those fields."— American ReligionBAR Book Forum: Aliyah Khan's "Far from Mecca" by Roberto Sirventhttps://www.blackagendareport.com/bar-book-forum-aliyah-khans-far-mecca— Black Agenda Report"In Far From Mecca, Aliyah Khan argues that Muslim identity is neither fixed nor uniform, but is instead performative, expressed according to shifting and contingent boundaries that are responses to historical and cultural, and local and global currents. Well-written and clearly argued, this book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the diversity of Muslims' histories and representation both in the Caribbean and across the globe."— Aisha Khan, author of Islam and the Americas"Aliyah Khan presents a brilliant illumination of alternative texts that relieves Caribbean Islamic adherents from facile postcolonial racial categorizations and grants them fluid identities of the twenty-first-century global subject."— Patricia Mohammed, author of Imaging the Caribbean: Culture and Visual Translation"Specialists in Caribbean studies and Islamic World studies will find particularly unique and timely Khan's insights."— New West Indian Guide

Aliyah Khan is an assistant professor of English and Afroamerican and African studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

• ContentsIntroduction Muslims in/of the Caribbean                                                                        1  Black Literary Islam: Enslaved Learned Men in Jamaica, and the Hidden Sufi Aesthetic                                           2  Silence and Suicide: Indo-Caribbean Fullawomen in Post-Plantation Modernity                                                    3  The Marvelous Muslim: Limbo, Logophagy, and Islamic Indigeneity in Guyana's El Dorado4  "Muslim Time": The Muslimeen Coup and Calypso in the Trinidad Imaginary    5   Mimic Man and Ethnorientalist: Global Caribbean Islam and the Specter of TerrorConclusion:     "Gods, I Suppose"                                                                                        AcknowledgmentsBibliography             About the Author

"There lies...intellectual rigour and the scholarly beauty [in] Far from Mecca: this book is intimately personal. Khan takes as her project to bear faithful witness to her own community, past, archival silencings, and liberatory possibilities."— Caribbean Quarterly"New Books Network - New Books in Caribbean Studies" interview with Aliyah Khanhttps://newbooksnetwork.com/aliyah-khan%E2%80%AFfar-from-mecca-globalizing-the-muslim-caribbean%E2%80%AFrutgers-up-2020/— New Books Network - New Books in Caribbean Studies"Khan's book demonstrates how scholars can both appreciate the particularities of the global Muslim experience and the nuanced history of religion in the Caribbean and the Americas....Far From Mecca is a gladly received correction to tired narratives about both global Islam and the Caribbean. My only hope is that it will provoke more conversations and research in this regard. Given Khan's erudite treatment of the subject, I have no reason to doubt that it will."— International Journal of Latin American Religions"Khan expands our imagination of what a global Muslim imaginary is, and why that matters. We can no longer understand Muslim communities outside of the Middle East and North Africa as peripheral to what Islam may mean, but rather as constitutive of a global ummah that plays a role in the formation of the many Muslim subjectivities everywhere."— Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies"With its focus on Muslim Caribbean life and literature, this book expands and challenges typical takes on and typical data for American religion, Islam in the Americas and around the world, and religion and literature. The book would be well worth a look for someone interested in those fields."— American ReligionBAR Book Forum: Aliyah Khan's "Far from Mecca" by Roberto Sirventhttps://www.blackagendareport.com/bar-book-forum-aliyah-khans-far-mecca— Black Agenda Report"In Far From Mecca, Aliyah Khan argues that Muslim identity is neither fixed nor uniform, but is instead performative, expressed according to shifting and contingent boundaries that are responses to historical and cultural, and local and global currents. Well-written and clearly argued, this book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the diversity of Muslims' histories and representation both in the Caribbean and across the globe."— Aisha Khan, author of Islam and the Americas"Aliyah Khan presents a brilliant illumination of alternative texts that relieves Caribbean Islamic adherents from facile postcolonial racial categorizations and grants them fluid identities of the twenty-first-century global subject."— Patricia Mohammed, author of Imaging the Caribbean: Culture and Visual Translation"Specialists in Caribbean studies and Islamic World studies will find particularly unique and timely Khan's insights."— New West Indian Guide

Aliyah Khan is an assistant professor of English and Afroamerican and African studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

• ContentsIntroduction Muslims in/of the Caribbean                                                                        1  Black Literary Islam: Enslaved Learned Men in Jamaica, and the Hidden Sufi Aesthetic                                           2  Silence and Suicide: Indo-Caribbean Fullawomen in Post-Plantation Modernity                                                    3  The Marvelous Muslim: Limbo, Logophagy, and Islamic Indigeneity in Guyana's El Dorado4  "Muslim Time": The Muslimeen Coup and Calypso in the Trinidad Imaginary    5   Mimic Man and Ethnorientalist: Global Caribbean Islam and the Specter of TerrorConclusion:     "Gods, I Suppose"                                                                                        AcknowledgmentsBibliography             About the Author

"There lies...intellectual rigour and the scholarly beauty [in] Far from Mecca: this book is intimately personal. Khan takes as her project to bear faithful witness to her own community, past, archival silencings, and liberatory possibilities."— Caribbean Quarterly"New Books Network - New Books in Caribbean Studies" interview with Aliyah Khanhttps://newbooksnetwork.com/aliyah-khan%E2%80%AFfar-from-mecca-globalizing-the-muslim-caribbean%E2%80%AFrutgers-up-2020/— New Books Network - New Books in Caribbean Studies"Khan's book demonstrates how scholars can both appreciate the particularities of the global Muslim experience and the nuanced history of religion in the Caribbean and the Americas....Far From Mecca is a gladly received correction to tired narratives about both global Islam and the Caribbean. My only hope is that it will provoke more conversations and research in this regard. Given Khan's erudite treatment of the subject, I have no reason to doubt that it will."— International Journal of Latin American Religions"Khan expands our imagination of what a global Muslim imaginary is, and why that matters. We can no longer understand Muslim communities outside of the Middle East and North Africa as peripheral to what Islam may mean, but rather as constitutive of a global ummah that plays a role in the formation of the many Muslim subjectivities everywhere."— Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies"With its focus on Muslim Caribbean life and literature, this book expands and challenges typical takes on and typical data for American religion, Islam in the Americas and around the world, and religion and literature. The book would be well worth a look for someone interested in those fields."— American ReligionBAR Book Forum: Aliyah Khan's "Far from Mecca" by Roberto Sirventhttps://www.blackagendareport.com/bar-book-forum-aliyah-khans-far-mecca— Black Agenda Report"In Far From Mecca, Aliyah Khan argues that Muslim identity is neither fixed nor uniform, but is instead performative, expressed according to shifting and contingent boundaries that are responses to historical and cultural, and local and global currents. Well-written and clearly argued, this book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the diversity of Muslims' histories and representation both in the Caribbean and across the globe."— Aisha Khan, author of Islam and the Americas"Aliyah Khan presents a brilliant illumination of alternative texts that relieves Caribbean Islamic adherents from facile postcolonial racial categorizations and grants them fluid identities of the twenty-first-century global subject."— Patricia Mohammed, author of Imaging the Caribbean: Culture and Visual Translation"Specialists in Caribbean studies and Islamic World studies will find particularly unique and timely Khan's insights."— New West Indian Guide