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

Embracing Muslims in a Catholic land : : rethinking the genesis of Islām in Mexico / / Jonathan Benzion.

"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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Superior document:Muslim minorities ; Volume 39
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Benzion, Jonathan,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Muslim minorities ; Volume 39.
Physical Description:1 online resource (261 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: On Hispania, Islām, Mexico, and Religious Tradition
  • 1. Imagined Communities: An Islamic New World in Pre-Columbian Times
  • 2. Fiction in the Archives: An Islamic Tradition in the Viceroyalty of Nueva España
  • 3. Taqiyyah, Fatwas, and Cédulas Reales: A Novohispanic Crypto-Islām between Paradigm, Folk Tale, and Faith
  • 4. Hidden Heretics in New Spain: Myth, Legend, and Evidence of the Abrahamic Religious Traditions of Colonial Mexico
  • 5. Corps Expéditionnaire Français of Napoleon III and an Islamic Resurgence in Mexico (1862-1867): Reassessing the Question
  • 6. Le Bataillon Nègre Égyptien and the Resurfacing of Islām in Mexico (1862-1867): Rethinking the Equation
  • Conclusion: A Reappraisal of Claims versus Evidence
  • Sources
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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