Towards Awareness and Accountability

A unique collection of scholarly, activist, and personal essays, Sexual Violence in Muslim Communities: Towards Awareness and Accountability lays bare the often invisible and nefarious ways that sexual violence permeates the societies and communities that Muslims inhabit as minority populations. Each contribution illuminates a different dimension of these violences which are often otherwise cast off as individual, private, or even exaggerated.

Readers will find reflections on the intricacies of survivor-oriented advocacy work, case studies of communal successes and failures in holding abusers accountable, analyses on the implications behind interpreting authoritative texts and manners of speaking about sexual violence, and considerations of what focusing on survivors looks like when this work is also mired in anti-Muslim hostility, racism, queerphobia, and benevolent patriarchy.

With pieces from the United States, Germany, the UK, South Africa, Ghana, and Nigeria, Sexual Violence in Muslim Communities demonstrates the importance of local contexts as well as the global connections between advocates, scholars, and service providers. This volume argues that addressing the scourge of sexual violence in Muslim communities requires approaches that are at once transnational and intersectional, unbounded by disciplinary limits, and – above all – accessible to the communities we seek to protect, uphold, and nourish.

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