Preface
Amir Hussain
Acknowledgments
General Introduction: Producing Islam(s) and Muslims in Canada
Jennifer A. Selby, Amélie Barras, and Melanie Adrian
Section 1: Examining Knowledge Production on Islam
Epistemologies of the “Muslim Question” in Europe: On the Politics of Knowledge Production in a Minefield
Schirin Amir-Moazami
Research Funding and the Production of Knowledge about Islam: The Case of SSHRC
Aaron W. Hughes
Creating Ecologies of Knowledge as a MENA Scholar in North America: An Interview with Dr. Lara Deeb
Sahver Kuzucuoglu
The Study of Islam(s) and Western Academia: An Interview with Anver Emon
Rehan Sayeed
Section 2: Charting the Study of Islam(s) and Muslims in Canada
Who Are “Muslims in Canada”? An Analysis of the Qualitative Literature from 1997 to 2017
Jennifer A. Selby, Amélie Barras, and Lori G. Beaman
Studying Muslim Minorities in Canada: Pitfalls Facing Researchers Attempting to Turn a Racialized Category into a Category of Analysis
Paul Eid
Time for a “Hijab Ban”? The Hypervisibility of Veiling in Scholarship on Islam in North America
Sadaf Ahmed
Expressions of Sufism in Canada
Meena Sharify-Funk and Jason Idriss Sparkes
Unpacking Media Coverage, Islam, and Ismaili Muslims in Canada: An Interview with Karim H. Karim
Mehmet Ali Basak
The Relational Approach to Integration in Canada: An Interview with Abdie Kazemipur
Sara Hamed
Section 3: Positioning Selves
Researching One’s Own Community: Reflections from Montreal, Canada
Hicham Tiflati and Abdelaziz Djaout
Cooking Up Research: Positionality and the Knowledge Production of Islam(s)
Rachel Brown
Fieldworking While Veiled: Autoethnography of a Brown + Muslim + Female Researcher in Quebec
Roshan Arah Jahangeer
The Interplay of Identity in Ethnographic Conversations: The Grammar of Recognition in Conversion Narratives
Géraldine Mossière
On Critical Muslim Studies, Anti-Islamophobia, and Canadian Islamic Schools: An Interview with Jasmin Zine
Mehmet Ali Basak
Section 4: Future Trends
Mixed-Methods and Comparative Approaches to Studying Muslim Immigrant Women in Canada
Catherine Holtmann
Influencing the Public Imaginary: The Case of a Montreal Islamic School
Melanie Adrian
2(b) or Not 2(b): The Expressive Value of the Niqab
Natasha Bakht
Gendering Everyday Islam, Border-Crossings, and the Production of “Alternative Knowledge”
Parin Dossa
Dancing between Academia and Activism: An Interview with Katherine Bullock
Sara Hamed
List of Contributors
Index
