Producing Islam(s) in Canada: On Knowledge, Positionality, and Politics

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