{"product_id":"racializing-the-ummah-rhea-rahman-9781517920272","title":"Racializing the Ummah: Muslim Humanitarians Beyond Black, Brown, and White","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA robust ethnography of Islamic Relief explores difficult questions about the extensive reach of white supremacy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn ethnography of Islamic Relief (IR), the largest Islamic NGO based in the West, \u003ci\u003eRacializing the Ummah\u003c\/i\u003e explores how a Muslim organization can \u003ci\u003edo good\u003c\/i\u003e in a world that defines Muslimness as less than human. Rooted in more than a decade of international research, Rhea Rahman's study on the organization's projects, methods, and limitations reveals how racial capitalism permeates all aspects of humanitarianism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning with a counterhistory of Muslims in the United Kingdom following World War II, Rahman analyzes IR's mission and transnational activities in and across places including the UK, South Africa, and Mali in the broader context of global white supremacy. She shows how IR's approaches often effectively secularize Islam to evade anti-Muslim racism and Islamophobia, implicating concepts such as the \"good\" Muslim aid worker, who complies with War on Terror surveillance while attending to victims of Western colonialism. Meanwhile, Rahman theorizes the tactics of aid workers on the ground, who creatively draw on an Islamic Black radical tradition to drive real change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough her engagement with IR and other organizations, Rahman paints a frank, nuanced portrait of the constraints Islamic aid entities face in the effort to disentangle themselves from neocolonialism and Western hegemony. Yet she also locates the possibility of escape from the all-encompassing dictates of racial capitalism in alternative visions of \u003ci\u003edoing good\u003c\/i\u003e--ones that are grounded in Islam as the foundation of a revolutionary praxis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rhea Rahman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517920272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517920272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.57h x 6.28w x 0.68d","brand":"Rhea Rahman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440564809983,"sku":"9781517920272","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5f71fec7-55fa-4ea5-82dd-d0d111284f63.jpg?v=1777183282","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/racializing-the-ummah-rhea-rahman-9781517920272","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}