Islam Dreaming

Name: Islam Dreaming
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SKU: 9781742232478
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Indigenous Muslims in Australia

By Peta Stephenson

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Islam Dreaming explores the unique and historical connection between Indigenous Australians and Islam. It traces relationships from early Muslim visitors and workers such as the Makassan trepang fishermen, Malay pearl-divers, and Afghan camel drivers, demonstrating how Islam has long offered Indigenous communities a way to reconnect with lost traditions and build strong communal ties.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in Indigenous Australian history, religious studies, and multicultural narratives within Australia.

From the Makassan trepang fisherman of Arnhem Land, the Malay pearl-divers of Broome, through the Afghan camel drivers of the interior, Muslims have lived and worked in Australia for over 3 centuries and were among the earliest peoples to form connections with Indigenous Australians. This book tells the stories of Australia's Indigenous Muslims.

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Indigenous Australians are increasingly finding in Islam the possibility of reconnection with lost Indigenous traditions and a model of community unavailable elsewhere. But this is not a new story.

From the Makassan trepang fisherman of Arnhem Land, the Malay pearl-divers of Broome, through the Afghan camel drivers of the interior, Muslims have lived and worked in Australia for over three centuries, and were among the earliest peoples to form connections with Indigenous Australians.

Islam Dreaming tells the stories of Australia's Indigenous Muslims.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781742232478

Publisher: NewSouth Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 October 2010

Country: Australia

Imprint: NewSouth Publishing

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 231.0mm

Weight: 425g

Pages: 288

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Education & Reference History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction Peta Stephenson

About the Author

Peta Stephenson is the author of Outsiders Within, an ARC postdoctoral fellow at the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne, and a former fellow in the Australian Studies Centre at the University of Queensland.

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