Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir is Associate Professor of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is a director at the United Nations Association of Singapore and was the recipient of the inaugural Western Sydney University International Alumni of the Year Award. He is the author of five books, including Globalized Muslim Youth in the Asia Pacific: Popular Culture in Singapore and Sydney.

Kamaludeen Mohmed Nasir's important contribution to the field most certainly gives the reader a theoretically insightful and empirically thorough account of the Muslim side of this development. Representing Islam: Hip-Hop of the September 11 Generation is highly recommended to specialized readers interested in Muslim popular culture, religion in general, globalization as well as avid hip-hop heads interested in the global impact of their culture.- Anders Ackfeldt (CyberOrient) With Representing Islam, [Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir] has produced an important sourcebook on global Muslim hip-hop in all its shades and a valuable sociological study of Muslim youth culture in the post-9/11 world.- Philipp Bruckmayr (Die Welt des Islams) The book, written in an engaging, accessible language, is a significant contribution to the field of Muslim popular culture and will be a very useful source for students of global hip hop, globalization, youth culture and contemporary Muslim cultural expressions.- Jeanette S. Jouili (Global Hip Hop Studies) Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir's Representing Islam argues that hip-hop is for the September 11 Muslim generation a route to freedom of expression, looking at how 'young Muslims [. . .] have embraced and appropriated hip-hop music as their anthem in response to the surging Islamophobia following September 11' (p. 2). . . . This is a solid contribution to hip-hop and popular music studies within Muslim culture and beyond.- Sikelelwa Anita Mashiy (Popular Music) Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir's Representing Islam: Hip-Hop of the September 11 Generation . . . sheds new light on understanding and interpreting the articulation, manifestations, and implications of and about Islam in this globalized and digitalized age. . . . A strategic and critical engagement between the micro and macro persoectives in sociology of Islam, Representing Islam is recommended to all students and researchers interested in Islamic religiosity, Muslim popular cultures, and research design in social hermeneutics approaches- Martin Jiajun He (American Journal of Islam and Society) In the burgeoning realm of hip-hop studies, Representing Islam is an ambitious project to address the subject from a Muslim perspective: the exponents, the style, the areas of contestation. This book should be consulted for anyone interested in cultural studies more broadly, from street art to fashion, and of course music and subcultures. It will no doubt be a key text in what must now be recognized as a discrete field of study.- Adam Geczy (Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture)

• PrefaceIntroduction: Anthem of a Generation1. Songs Rather Than Screams2. Something that is Ours... and still Authentically Islam3. It is... a Problem of Human Rights4. She Reppin' Islam and She Gives it a Meaning5. Enemy of the State6. Keeping it Real... Keeping it Cool...Bibliography

Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir is Associate Professor of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is a director at the United Nations Association of Singapore and was the recipient of the inaugural Western Sydney University International Alumni of the Year Award. He is the author of five books, including Globalized Muslim Youth in the Asia Pacific: Popular Culture in Singapore and Sydney.

Kamaludeen Mohmed Nasir's important contribution to the field most certainly gives the reader a theoretically insightful and empirically thorough account of the Muslim side of this development. Representing Islam: Hip-Hop of the September 11 Generation is highly recommended to specialized readers interested in Muslim popular culture, religion in general, globalization as well as avid hip-hop heads interested in the global impact of their culture.- Anders Ackfeldt (CyberOrient) With Representing Islam, [Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir] has produced an important sourcebook on global Muslim hip-hop in all its shades and a valuable sociological study of Muslim youth culture in the post-9/11 world.- Philipp Bruckmayr (Die Welt des Islams) The book, written in an engaging, accessible language, is a significant contribution to the field of Muslim popular culture and will be a very useful source for students of global hip hop, globalization, youth culture and contemporary Muslim cultural expressions.- Jeanette S. Jouili (Global Hip Hop Studies) Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir's Representing Islam argues that hip-hop is for the September 11 Muslim generation a route to freedom of expression, looking at how 'young Muslims [. . .] have embraced and appropriated hip-hop music as their anthem in response to the surging Islamophobia following September 11' (p. 2). . . . This is a solid contribution to hip-hop and popular music studies within Muslim culture and beyond.- Sikelelwa Anita Mashiy (Popular Music) Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir's Representing Islam: Hip-Hop of the September 11 Generation . . . sheds new light on understanding and interpreting the articulation, manifestations, and implications of and about Islam in this globalized and digitalized age. . . . A strategic and critical engagement between the micro and macro persoectives in sociology of Islam, Representing Islam is recommended to all students and researchers interested in Islamic religiosity, Muslim popular cultures, and research design in social hermeneutics approaches- Martin Jiajun He (American Journal of Islam and Society) In the burgeoning realm of hip-hop studies, Representing Islam is an ambitious project to address the subject from a Muslim perspective: the exponents, the style, the areas of contestation. This book should be consulted for anyone interested in cultural studies more broadly, from street art to fashion, and of course music and subcultures. It will no doubt be a key text in what must now be recognized as a discrete field of study.- Adam Geczy (Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture)

• PrefaceIntroduction: Anthem of a Generation1. Songs Rather Than Screams2. Something that is Ours... and still Authentically Islam3. It is... a Problem of Human Rights4. She Reppin' Islam and She Gives it a Meaning5. Enemy of the State6. Keeping it Real... Keeping it Cool...Bibliography