Jonathan Benzion – Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC) https://iric.org Sun, 08 Oct 2023 04:55:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.14 https://iric.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/iric-favicon.png Jonathan Benzion – Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC) https://iric.org 32 32 Embracing Muslims in a Catholic Land: Rethinking the Genesis of Islām in Mexico https://iric.org/embracing-muslims-in-a-catholic-land-rethinking-the-genesis-of-islam-in-mexico/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=embracing-muslims-in-a-catholic-land-rethinking-the-genesis-of-islam-in-mexico https://iric.org/embracing-muslims-in-a-catholic-land-rethinking-the-genesis-of-islam-in-mexico/#respond Sun, 01 May 2022 09:52:16 +0000 https://demo.iric.org/?p=14594 Embracing-Muslims-in-a-Catholic-Land

By Jonathan Benzion

Series: Muslim Minorities, Vol. 39

Publisher: Brill

Publication Date: February 28, 2022

 

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.

Source: Brill

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