Date of Award
5-2023
Document Type
Thesis open access
Department
Anthropology
First Advisor
Tahir Naqvi
Second Advisor
Sajida Jalalzai
Abstract
The scholarly literature shows that jinn are important in the analysis of the formation of Islam in Muslim diasporas in the West. Jinn discourses in America reveal how American Muslims negotiate their religious beliefs in relation to American conceptions of modernity and secularism, as well as highlights competing Islamic epistemologies that result from these negotiations. Imams emphasize the Qur’an and the Sunnah as the only sources of legitimate knowledge, while lay American Muslims and scholars of Islam see personal experience as a way to approach Islam.
Recommended Citation
Kaliszewski, Gwen, "Jinn Discourses in America" (2023). Sociology and Anthropology Honors Theses. 21.
https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/socanthro_honors/21