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Copyright Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Minas Gera, Programa de Posgraduacao em Ciencias da Religiao Apr-Jun 2015

Abstract

This article presents the historical aspect about Islam in Brazil and analyzes some events as the revolt of Males slaves in the state of Bahia and also the migration of Syrians and Lebanese to Brazil. The purpose is to show that the presence of Islam in Brazil in the 19th century, was provided by the traffic of slaves brought from Africa, Known as Males, and that such traffic had no connection with Muslim communities installed in Brazil since the 20th century in the period of Syrian and Lebanese immigrations. These two historical moments have been reported here through bibliographic research that sought to find conditions of possibility of the establishment of this religion in the Brazilian field; such phase of Syrian and Lebanese immigration resulted in the contemporary communities, specially those of the Southeast region. In both cases we could say that in Brazil, Islam has been a non ethnic-oriented religion, and only nowadays it seems to open towards a mixed reality, specially with the conversion of non-Arabs to Islam in Brazil. Nevertheless, we observe that even having been parto f Brazilian history, Islam is still seen in a suspicious way by Brazilians and appears as an additional option in the Brazilian religious context.

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Title
O Islã no Brasil: malês e "árabes", dois momentos da presença muçulmana no contexto brasileiro/Islam in Brazil. Males and "Arabs": two moments of the Muslim presence in the Brazilian context
Author
Sena, Edmar Avelar
Pages
829-861
Section
Dossiê: Islamismo: religião e cultura - Artigo original
Publication year
2015
Publication date
Apr-Jun 2015
Publisher
Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Minas Gera, Programa de Posgraduacao em Ciencias da Religiao
ISSN
16799615
e-ISSN
21755841
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Portuguese
ProQuest document ID
1696718045
Copyright
Copyright Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Minas Gera, Programa de Posgraduacao em Ciencias da Religiao Apr-Jun 2015