Embracing Muslims in a Catholic land: rethinking the genesis of Islām in Mexico

"This study presents a contrasting hypothesis concerning the genesis and development of Islam in Mexico than the one generally held across academic spheres and current historiography. It demonstrates that Colonial and Early Independent Mexico and Islam may have as well known about the existence...

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Main Author: Benzion, Jonathan (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill 2022
In: Muslim minorities (volume 39)
Year: 2022
Series/Journal:Muslim minorities volume 39
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Mexico / Islam / History 1500-1900
IxTheo Classification:BJ Islam
KBR Latin America
TJ Modern history
Further subjects:B Islam (Mexico) History
B Mexico History 19th century
B Muslims (Mexico) History
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Summary:"This study presents a contrasting hypothesis concerning the genesis and development of Islam in Mexico than the one generally held across academic spheres and current historiography. It demonstrates that Colonial and Early Independent Mexico and Islam may have as well known about the existence of each other. However, within the chronological framework in which the Viceroyalty of Nueva España lived and developed there were social hindrance, geopolitical imperatives and theological impediments and cosmovisions - in both sides of the Atlantic - that created the quasi-perfect circumstances for the Islamic tradition and Mexico not to really meet. This book provides new angles of study on the theme, and with it, new historiographical approaches"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9004510303