Far from Mecca – Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean Khan Paperback 9781978806641

Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean\nby Aliyah Khan\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Aliyah Khan\nTitle: Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: general\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press\nPublication year: 2020\nISBN-13: 9781978806641\nISBN-10: 1978806647\nRRP: \u00A338.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nHonorable Mention, 2022 MLA Prize for a First Book\n\nFar 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 presen.