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DUE TO THE PANDEMIC, THIS LECTURE WILL BE SHIFTED AND IS EXPECTED TO TAKE PLACE IN SPRING 2021.
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The Center for Inter-American Studies (C.IAS) cordially invites you to join us for the lecture "Islam made in the USA: The Spread of Black Muslim Movements in the Americas and the Caribbean" by Dr. Philipp Bruckmayr (University of Vienna).
Following the emergence of a variety of Black Muslim movements in the USA since the 1920s, Islam began to spread among Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean communities in a number of states in the Americas and the Caribbean as well as in Great Britain. The lecture will provide an overview of this transnational expansion of Black Muslim movements, being the account of a conversion process to Islam among African-descended populations, which has spread - not from the Muslim world but the USA – across the Americas and Caribbean and into Europe. Further it will show how and why the adherents of an Islamic tradition, which had initially developed in and radiated from the USA with only limited discursive and personal links to the Muslim world, have in recent decades embarked on various paths of transformation, including towards more mainstream Sunni Islam, Shiism and Salafism.
Our International Lecture Series in Inter-American History and Culture invites top-class scientists to lecture at the University of Graz. The series aims to impart Inter-American topics as well as theories and methods of the humanities and social sciences.
In line with COVID-19 safety guidelines we kindly ask you to register with Dr. Christian Cwik at christian.cwik(at)uni-graz.at.
Philipp Bruckmayr (Dr. phil. Univ. of Vienna) teaches Arabic & Islamic Studies at the University of Vienna. His most recent publications include Cambodia’s Muslims and the Malay World (2019).