Across the Worlds of Islam

Edward E. Curtis IV is professor of religious studies, William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts, and adjunct professor of American studies and Africana studies at the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts in Indianapolis. He is the author or editor of a number of books, including The Columbia Sourcebook of Muslims in the United States (2009) and Muslims of the Heartland: How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest (2022).

It extols without exhausting the search for humanity that underlies each chapter and unifies the book as a whole. It is not an easy or comfortable read, but it is a dazzling display of diversity across time and space, disciplines and methods, in pursuit of an Islam at once known and unknowable.

• Introduction, by Edward E. Curtis IV1. Islam and Its Others: Ambivalent Orientations Toward the Margins of Islam, by Farah Bakaari2. Rethinking the Center: Margins and Multiplicity in Hadith Texts, by Michael Muhammad Knight3. Islamic Tattooing: Embodying Healing, Materializing Relationships, and Mediating Tradition, by Max Johnson Dugan4. Lover’s Words Are Eternal: Alevi Ashik Poetry Beyond the Margins, by Tess M. Waggoner5. On the Margins of Islamic Doctrine, at the Heart of Islamic Ethics: Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam and Black Liberation, by Edward E. Curtis IV6. Love and Care at the Margins of Future Generations, by Holly Donahue Singh7. Writing Mongol History on the Margins: Sufi and Kinship Connectivity in the Tarikh-i Rashidi, by Henry D. Brill8. Journey to the Teaching of Islam, by Kathryn D. BlanchardConclusion: Let the Margins Be the Center, by Vernon James SchubelList of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIndex