The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture

Hussein Rashid, Kristian Petersen, Hussein Rashid, Kristian Petersen

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781350145399
• eBook ISBN: 9781350145412
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Islamic Theology

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture illustrates how Muslims participate in a broad spectrum of activities. Moving beyond a framework that emphasizes ritual, legal, historical, or theological issues, this book speaks to how Muslims live in the world, in relation to their religion and the realities of the world around them.

The international team of contributors provide in-depth analysis that chronicles Islamic cultural products in regional and transnational contexts, explores dominant and emerging theories about popularization, and offers provocations in the field of religion and popular culture. The handbook is structured in six parts: spaces; appetites; performances; readings; visions; and communities.

The book explores a variety of Muslim societies and communities within the last 100 years, ranging from the Islamic presence in Latin American architecture to Muslim Anglophone hip-hop, and Muslims in modern Indian theatre.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Dedication
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The Orientations of Muslim Popular Culture
• Part 1 Spaces
• 1 Islamic Presence in Latin American Architecture: Three Periods, Three Ways
• 2 Impact of Shiah Government on Public Spaces’ Morphology of Tehran After the Islamic Revolution
• 3 Sights and Sites of Translocal Islam: Chinese-style Mosques in Malaysia and Indonesia
• 4 Eidgah: Multifunctional Open Architecture as a Shared Space for Memory and Emotion
• 5 Image and Object in Islam: On the Ka’bah and its Popular Representations
• 6 This is Home Now! “Migrating” Mosques as Symbols of Territorial Identity in the Modern Australian Suburban Landscape
• Part 2 Appetites
• 7 Shi‘i Muslim Food Practices in Contemporary Iran: Transformation, Blessing, and Citizenship
• 8 Muslim Butchers, Ethical Practice, and Sensory Politics: The Changing Economy of Meat in Mumbai
• 9 Muslim Foodways and Pop Culture: Beyond Halal, Boundary Maintenance, and SAME cuisine
• Part 3 Performances
• 10 Rai, World Music, and Islam
• 11 Desert Rhythms and Islamic Girl Groups: Making Modern Music for the Muslim Masses in 1970s Southeast Asia
• 12 The Poetics of Resistance in Muslim Anglophone Hip Hop: A Reading of Omar Offendum as a Representative Voice
• 13 What is a Muslim Comedian? Muslim Comedians and Racialization in the United States
• 14 Representation, Identity, and Community: Muslims in Modern Indian Theatre
• 15 Muslims and Cricket
• Part 4 Readings
• 16 Sisters, Skanks, and Jezebels: American Muslim Fiction and the Other Woman
• 17 Towards a Global History of Islamicate Science Fiction
• 18 Counter-Images? The Cultural Transfer of the Caricature into Modern Egyptian Culture
• Part 5 Visions
• 19 Indigeneity and Identity Transmission: Amazigh Cultural Expression Through Film
• 20 Kannywood: An Embattled Hausa Film Industry in “Muslim Northern” Nigeria
• 21 Malaysia’s Popular Malay-Muslim TV Fiction and Fan Narratives
• 22 Islamic Geometric Design in Popular Culture
• 23 Radical Hope in Cultural Subversion: Muslim Women Artists on Space and Identity
• Part 6 Communities
• 24 Consuming Sufism: Rumi and the Making of a Cultural Icon
• 25 Materializing Islam: Fashion Advertisements and the Production of “The Muslim Woman”
• 26 The Prophet Muhammad’s Sandalprint: Muslim Retro-cool and the Product-placed Sermon in Contemporary Turkey
• 27 Muslim Preachers and Mass Media
• Notes
• References
• Index
• Copyright