The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture by Rashid, Hussein; Petersen, Kristian;

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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.

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List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: ""The Orientations of Muslim Popular Culture"", Hussein Rashid (independent scholar, USA) and Kristian Petersen (Old Dominion University, USA)
Part I: Spaces
1. Islamic Presence in Latin American Architecture. Three Periods - Three Ways, Fernando Luis Martinez Nespral, (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
2. Impact of Shiah Government on Public Spaces' Morphology of Tehran after the Islamic Revolution, Narciss Sohrabi (Paris Nanterre University, France)
3. Sights and Sites of Translocal Islam: Chinese-style Mosques in Malaysia and Indonesia, Wai Weng Hew (National University of Malaysia, Malaysia)
4. Eidgah: Multifunctional Open Architecture as a Shared Space for Memory and Emotion, Shaista Anwar (independent architectural historian, India)
5. Image and Object in Islam: On the Ka'bah and Its Popular Representations, Ann Shafer (Rhode Island School of Design, USA)
6. This is Home Now! 'Migrating' Mosques as Symbols of Territorial Identity in the Modern Australian Suburban Landscape, Majdi Faleh (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
Part II: Appetites
7. Shi'i Muslim Food Practices in Contemporary Iran: Transformation, Blessing, and Citizenship, Rose Wellman (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)
8. Muslim Butchers, Ethical practice and Sensory Politics: The Changing Economy of Meat in Mumbai, Shaheed Tayob (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
9. Muslim Foodways and Pop Culture: Beyond halal, Boundary Maintenance, and SAME-Cuisine, Rachel Brown (University of Victoria, Canada) and Aldea Mulhern (Fresno State University, USA)
Part III: Performances
10. Rai, World Music, and Islam, Ted Swedenburg (University of Arkansas, USA)
11. Desert Rhythms and Islamic Girl Groups: Making Modern Music for the Muslim Masses in 1970s Southeast Asia, Bart Barendregt (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
12. The Poetics of Resistance in Muslim Anglophone Hip Hop: A Reading of Omar Offendum as a Representative Voice, Naglaa Hassan (Fayoum University, Egypt)
13. What is a Muslim Comedian? Muslim Comedians and Racialization in the United States, David Feltmate (Auburn University at Montgomery, USA)
14. Representation, Identity, and Community: Muslims in Modern Indian Theatre, Jaclyn Michael (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA)
15. Muslims and Cricket, Ali Khan (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)
Part IV: Readings
16. Sisters, Skanks, and Jezebels: American Muslim Fiction and The Other Woman, Layla AbdullahPoulous (SUNY Empire State College, USA)
17. Towards a Global History of Islamicate Science Fiction, Rebecca Hankins (Texas A&M University, USA) and Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad (University of Washington, USA)
18. Counter-Images?: The Cultural Transfer of the Caricature into Modern Egyptian Culture, Keren Zdafee (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Part V: Visions
19. Indigeneity and Identity Transmission: Amazigh Cultural Expression through Film, Yahya Laayouni (Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, USA) and Habiba Boumlik (LaGuardia Community College, USA)
20. Kannywood: An Embattled Hausa Film Industry in 'Muslim Northern' Nigeria, Muhsin Ibrahim (University of Cologne, Germany)
21. Malaysia's Popular Malay-Muslim TV Fiction and Fan Narratives, Mohd Muzhafar Idrus (Islamic Science University of Malaysia, Malaysia), Ruzy Suliza Hashim (National University of Malaysia, Malaysia), and Raihanah M. M (National University of Malaysia, Malaysia)
22. Islamic Geometric Design in Popular Culture, Eric Broug (Independent Scholar, UK)
23. Radical Hope in Cultural Subversion: Muslim Women Artists on Space and Identity, June-Ann Greeley (Sacred Heart University, USA)
Part VI: Communities
24. Consuming Sufism: Rumi and the Marking of a Cultural Icon, Shobhana Xavier (Queen's University, Canada)
25. Materializing Islam: Fashion Advertisements and the Production of the ""Muslim Woman"", Kayla Wheeler (Xavier University, USA)
26. The Prophet Muhammad's Sandalprint: Muslim Retro-Cool and the Product-Placed Sermon in Contemporary Turkey, Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan, USA)
27. Muslim Preachers and Mass Media, Jacquelene Brinton (University of Kansas, USA)
Index