Book Talk: ACMCU would like to invite you to view a re-broadcast of our most recent Book Talk: Muslims on the Margins with Professor Katrina Daly Thompson Click Above to Watch In this talk about their new book, Muslims on the Margins: Creating

In this talk about their new book, Muslims on the Margins: Creating Queer Religious Community in North America (NYU Press, 2023), Professor Katrina Daly Thompson tells the story of progressive Muslims’ even more radical descendants: nonconformists who have reinterpreted their religion and created space for queer, trans, and nonbinary identities within Islam. Thompson draws extensively from conversations and interviews conducted both in person in North America and online in several international communities. Centering the real experiences and diverse perspectives of nonconformist Muslims, Thompson illustrates how these radical Muslims are forming a community dedicated to creative reinterpretations of their religion, critical questioning of established norms, expansive inclusion of those who are queer in various ways, and the creation of different religious futures. Muslims on the Margins is a powerful account of how Muslims are forging new traditions and setting precedents for a more inclusive community— one that is engaged with tradition but not beholden to it.

Speaker:

Professor Katrina Daly Thompson is the Evjue-Bascom Professor in the Humanities and Professor of African Cutlural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with affiliations in Religious Studies, Anthropology, and Gender and Women’s Studies. Their previous books include Popobawa: Tanzanian Talk, Global Misreadings (Indiana UP, 2017), and the edited volume Gendered Lives on the Western Indian Ocean (with Erin Stiles; Ohio UP, 2015). They teach courses on language, gender, and Islam in Africa and the Diaspora.

Moderator:

Professor Shenila Khoja-Moolji is the Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Associate Professor of Muslim Societies at Georgetown University. She researches and writes about the interplay of gender, race, religion, and power in relation to Muslim populations in South Asia and in the North American diaspora. Professor Khoja-Moolji’s latest book, Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality (Oxford University Press) is available to order here.

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