TY - JOUR AU - Spray, Imogen PY - 2020/05/17 Y2 - 2024/03/19 TI - Review of “Black Mecca: The African Muslims of Harlem” by Zain Abdullah JF - ETNOSIA : Jurnal Etnografi Indonesia JA - ETNOSIA VL - 5 IS - 1 SE - DO - 10.31947/etnosia.v5i1.8555 UR - https://journal.unhas.ac.id/index.php/etnosia/article/view/8555 SP - 1 - 4 AB - <em><span lang="EN-US">This article aims to review the book with the title of Black Mecca: The African Muslims of Harlem by Zain Abdullah. Abdullah’s (2010) Mec Black Mecca ’adds to the growing body of literature on Islam influenced by the post-modernists' challenges to neo-Orientalist Western representations of Islam (Al Azmeh 1993: 140). They are called for a historicized and contextualized view of Islam and Muslims, steering away from essentializing identity politics. Abdullah's (2010) thick ethnography, or as he describes it, "narrative style," presents a variety of anecdotes and experiences along gendered, class, and generational lines, with a common Muslim orientation towards environment and experiences.</span></em> ER -