Islam Dreaming: Indigenous Muslims in Australia

Indigenous Australians are increasingly finding in Islam the possibility of reconnection with lost Indigenous traditions and a model of community unavailable elsewhere. But this is not a new story. From the Makassan trepang fisherman of Arnhem Land, the Malay pearl-divers of Broome, through the Afghan camel drivers of the interior, Muslims have lived and worked in Australia for over three centuries, and were among the earliest peoples to form connections with Indigenous Australians. Islam Dreaming tells the stories of Australia’s Indigenous Muslims.

Peta Stephenson is the author of ＂Outsiders Within,＂ an ARC postdoctoral fellow at the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne, and a former fellow in the Australian Studies Centre at the University of Queensland.