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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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Leiden Boston
Brill
2022
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| In: |
Muslim minorities (volume 39)
Year: 2022 |
| Series/Journal: | Muslim minorities
volume 39 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mexico
/ Islam
/ History 1500-1900
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| 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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Table of Contents Blurb Literaturverzeichnis |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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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"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9004510303 |