The book highlights issues related to the construction of gender in Africa and African identity
politics. It explores the limitations of the constructed category of African Muslim woman in
West Yorkshire. Amina Alrasheed Nayel uses Black feminist epistemology along with postcolonial
feminist and critical race theory to examine the multiple identities that Sudanese women
negotiate in the UK. The diverse settings of Islam and Islamic culture circumscribed around
issues of performativity of Islam and identity construction in the diasporic space are unpacked
in this volume. In addition this work analyzes specific practices and performances starting
with the multifaceted nature of Islam and the problematic concepts of Sunni Sufi Muslim woman
race and blackness. The book reveals that exile nostalgia and racial ethnic differences
within Islam and the wider UK community underpin the performativity of Muslimness of the
Sudanese women living in West Yorkshire and reiterates the importance of moving beyond the
homogeneity of the idea of Muslim woman towards investigating the complexities of this group.
