Muslim diasporas and their framing(s): Muslim migration rethought

Different branches of anthropological inquiry that have focused on Muslim populations in the Global South, have tended to treat Islam as something like an independent variable. This is true of both those concerned with social structure and those which focused on social signs - each has often treated Muslims as either derivative of a monolithic Islam or as the sites of readable gestures. In The Bengal Diaspora: Rethinking Muslim Migration, the authors move us on from these tendencies through multidisciplinary and historical inquiry, in ways that always grasp the real life embodiments through which Muslim diasporas are forged and re-forged.