Hussein Rashid
Biographic Data
| ID | 4772652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hussein Rashid |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hussein |
| FAMILY NAME | Rashid |
| SIGNATURE | RASHID H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hofstra University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1559-0053 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Muslim Prayer in American Public Life
The volume The Practice of Islam in America, edited by Edward E. Curtis, was released in 2017. It was an important work because it was a volume that took American Muslim ritual life as an primary source of study. It helped explain rituals and explored their manifestations in a variety of American Muslim contexts. Since then, there have been very few works on American Muslim ritual life. In the interests of transparency, I should note that both Ro…
Are the Arts Essential?
A timely and kaleidoscopic reflection on the importance of the arts in our society In the midst of a devastating pandemic, as theaters, art galleries and museums, dance stages and concert halls shuttered their doors indefinitely and institutional funding for entertainment and culture evaporated almost overnight, a cohort of highly acclaimed scholars, artists, cultural critics, and a journalist sat down to ponder an urgent question: Are the arts e…
Young Muslim America
Muna Ali’s Young Muslim America is a multi-layered, multi-disciplinary work that delivers a snapshot of American Muslim life, grounded in history and theory. She begins by saying she is looking at individual narratives embedded in a larger narrative “about being and belonging, about identity politics in a globalizing world where grand narratives of national and civilizational histories, secularism, and global wars are summoned” (4). The idea of “…
Harold Morales, Latino and Muslim in America
American Religion 1, no. 2 (Spring 2020), pp. 148–150 Copyright © 2020, The Trustees of Indiana University • doi: 10.2979/amerreli.1.2.13 Book Review Harold Morales. Latino and Muslim in America (New York: Oxford University Press, March 2018) Hussein Rashid Independent Scholar, New York City, USA One of the most exciting parts of researching Muslims in America is the inherent multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary aspects of the work. One cannot…
Qawwālī in America
The Lives of Muhammad / Kecia Ali
American Muslim (Un)Exceptionalism
The acceptance and performance of Americanness as defined by a dominant discourse is manifest in the ways Muslims express their religious identification and acquiesce to the issues that are important to the state. In this article, we choose one particular example to highlight a trajectory of responses that limits Muslim history in the United States to positive and uncritical representations of the self, thereby circumscribing avenues of dissent a…
Shaheed-e Harlem
Malcolm X continues to have an impact on numerous antiracist struggles in the world. A British South Asian diaspora musical group, Fun^Da^Mental (FDM), not only samples Malcolm X but seems to echo his transformation by looking at the particularity of its situation in relation to the universality of struggles against dominance and hegemony. FDM integrates Malcolm X's words with Muslim devotionals from South Asia, hip-hop, and electronic music to s…
We Are All Vincent Navroze Balbir
The shooting at Oak Creek, WI, where six people were killed and four wounded in a Sikh temple, is the result of certain exclusionary policies and rhetoric in American society. The language of exclusion and creating an internal ‘Other’ has been applied to various minority groups in the USA. With an increase in Islamophobia after 9/11, and broad categorization of brown bodies as suspect, there is an intense antipathy to those of West and South Asia…
The Butterfly Mosque
Autobiography, as it relates to Muslims and to America, can be a difficultgenre in which to write. There are numerous works that have appearedsince 2001 that cover the spectrum from an anti-Islamic polemic to anapologia. G. Willow Wilson, author of the Butterfly Mosque, managesto avoid the extremes and writes a meaningful memoir that reflects thebeauty and ugliness of being a Muslim and an American. The difficultyin reviewing a memoir is that a s…
American Muslim (Un)Exceptionalism
The acceptance and performance of Americanness as defined by a dominant discourse is manifest in the ways Muslims express their religious identification and acquiesce to the issues that are important to the state. In this article, we choose one particular example to highlight a trajectory of responses that limits Muslim history in the United States to positive and uncritical representations of the self, thereby circumscribing avenues of dissent a…
The Butterfly Mosque
Autobiography, as it relates to Muslims and to America, can be a difficultgenre in which to write. There are numerous works that have appearedsince 2001 that cover the spectrum from an anti-Islamic polemic to anapologia. G. Willow Wilson, author of the Butterfly Mosque, managesto avoid the extremes and writes a meaningful memoir that reflects thebeauty and ugliness of being a Muslim and an American. The difficultyin reviewing a memoir is that a s…
We Are All Vincent Navroze Balbir
The shooting at Oak Creek, WI, where six people were killed and four wounded in a Sikh temple, is the result of certain exclusionary policies and rhetoric in American society. The language of exclusion and creating an internal ‘Other’ has been applied to various minority groups in the USA. With an increase in Islamophobia after 9/11, and broad categorization of brown bodies as suspect, there is an intense antipathy to those of West and South Asia…
American Muslim (Un)Exceptionalism
The acceptance and performance of Americanness as defined by a dominant discourse is manifest in the ways Muslims express their religious identification and acquiesce to the issues that are important to the state. In this article, we choose one particular example to highlight a trajectory of responses that limits Muslim history in the United States to positive and uncritical representations of the self, thereby circumscribing avenues of dissent a…
Shaheed-e Harlem
Malcolm X continues to have an impact on numerous antiracist struggles in the world. A British South Asian diaspora musical group, Fun^Da^Mental (FDM), not only samples Malcolm X but seems to echo his transformation by looking at the particularity of its situation in relation to the universality of struggles against dominance and hegemony. FDM integrates Malcolm X's words with Muslim devotionals from South Asia, hip-hop, and electronic music to s…
The Lives of Muhammad / Kecia Ali
Qawwālī in America
Young Muslim America
Muna Ali’s Young Muslim America is a multi-layered, multi-disciplinary work that delivers a snapshot of American Muslim life, grounded in history and theory. She begins by saying she is looking at individual narratives embedded in a larger narrative “about being and belonging, about identity politics in a globalizing world where grand narratives of national and civilizational histories, secularism, and global wars are summoned” (4). The idea of “…
Harold Morales, Latino and Muslim in America
American Religion 1, no. 2 (Spring 2020), pp. 148–150 Copyright © 2020, The Trustees of Indiana University • doi: 10.2979/amerreli.1.2.13 Book Review Harold Morales. Latino and Muslim in America (New York: Oxford University Press, March 2018) Hussein Rashid Independent Scholar, New York City, USA One of the most exciting parts of researching Muslims in America is the inherent multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary aspects of the work. One cannot…
Are the Arts Essential?
A timely and kaleidoscopic reflection on the importance of the arts in our society In the midst of a devastating pandemic, as theaters, art galleries and museums, dance stages and concert halls shuttered their doors indefinitely and institutional funding for entertainment and culture evaporated almost overnight, a cohort of highly acclaimed scholars, artists, cultural critics, and a journalist sat down to ponder an urgent question: Are the arts e…
Muslim Prayer in American Public Life
The volume The Practice of Islam in America, edited by Edward E. Curtis, was released in 2017. It was an important work because it was a volume that took American Muslim ritual life as an primary source of study. It helped explain rituals and explored their manifestations in a variety of American Muslim contexts. Since then, there have been very few works on American Muslim ritual life. In the interests of transparency, I should note that both Ro…
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