Understanding Muslim Mobilities and Gender

• Main Author: Viola Thimm (Ed.) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
• Subjects: Space and Place; Migration; Mobility; Gender; Spirituality of travel; Religious travel; Tourism; Immobility; Islam; Pilgrimage; Transnationalism; Intersectionality; Identity; Power
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Complex dynamics emerge around im/mobility that are related to social relations, identifications and power in many parts of the contemporary world. The manifold ways in which Muslims engage the possibilities of mobile lives show the tremendous creative potential of these practices. Coming from diffe...