Muslims on the Margins

Katrina Daly Thompson is Evjue-Bascom Professor in the Humanities and Professor of African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The author of Popobawa: Tanzanian Talk, Global Misreadings, their recent work has appeared in American Anthropologist, Language and Communication, and the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.

"Masterfully engages with scholarship from many different disciplines. Muslims on the Margins makes several significant scholarly interventions and is an especially important and necessary addition to the literature on queer Muslims and North American religions." - Ahmed Afzal, California State University, Fullerton "Timely and beautifully written. An impressive book whose insights are as compelling as they are significant." - Elizabeth Pérez, University of California, Santa Barbara "If you're looking for books about religious innovation and queer religious people, we have a fascinating book to recommend on LGBTQ Muslims. Katrina Daly Thompson released a new book this year on how queer, transgender, and nonbinary Muslims are transforming Islam. Muslims on the Margins is insightful and filled with important stories." (The Revealer) "Muslims on the Margins stands as a vital and meticulous ethnographic exploration. With an artistic writing style, this work offers an essential perspective for examining the shifting landscape of Muslim identity in North America, extending its reach beyond an academic audience. It illuminates the intricate realities these communities navigate and reveals the transformative possibilities and tangible futures inherent within their stories." (Reading Religion) "Thompson's book shines when it details...a subject's initial discomfort and eventual embrace of the embodied experiences of gender-expansive prayer, the processes by which understandings of modesty are shifted from one's clothes to one's gaze, and communal interrogations of Sunni normativity embedded in nonconformist Muslim discourse." (American Religion) "Muslims on the Margins is a must-read for undergraduate and graduate students of Islam in North America, Islam, gender/sexuality studies, and anthropology of religion, who will undoubtedly be challenged and enriched for engaging with this text." (Journal of Church and State)