Research & Publications
Selected academic research exploring the history, diversity, and lived experience of Muslim communities in Colombia and across Latin America.
Featured Research
Emerging “Indigenous” Islam in Colombia: Conversions, Identity, and Community Challenges
Baptiste Brodard · Religions · 2026
Examines the emergence of locally rooted Muslim communities in contemporary Colombia, with particular attention to conversion, identity, religious authority, and the challenges of sustaining Muslim communities.
Muslim Life & Conversion
Vivir islámicamente en Colombia: manifestaciones de una búsqueda de trascendencia
Jean Paul Sarrazin & Nicolás Tamayo · Nómadas · 2017
An ethnographic study exploring conversion, religious practice, morality, and the ways Colombian Muslims understand Islam as a framework for their lives.
Conversión de antiguos creyentes católicos al islam en Bogotá entre los años 2017 y 2019
Óscar Domínguez Portugal · 2019
Examines the experiences of former Catholics who converted to Islam in Bogotá, including their motivations for conversion and the changes and challenges that followed.
History & Identity
Identidad y minorías musulmanas en Colombia
María del Rosario García Flórez · 2007
A foundational study examining the historical formation of Colombia’s Muslim minority and its relationship with migration, national identity, religious difference, and Colombian society.
Islam en Bogotá: presencia inicial y diversidad
Diego Giovanni Castellanos · 2010
Explores the development and diversity of Muslim communities in Bogotá, including their religious practices, organization, and relationship with Colombian society.
Identidad y minorías musulmanas en Colombia: ocupación y Gobierno hispánicos del territorio
María del Rosario García · 2004
Examines Muslim and Morisco influences during the Spanish colonial period and considers questions of religious exclusion, identity, and the historical development of Colombian society.
Afro-Colombian Islam & Buenaventura
Etnicidad y religión en la comunidad musulmana de Buenaventura
Diego Giovanni Castellanos · Memoria y Sociedad · 2014
Examines the relationship between Afro-Colombian identity and Muslim religious identity within Buenaventura’s distinctive Muslim community.
Elementos para una periodización de la historia de la comunidad musulmana de Buenaventura
Diego Giovanni Castellanos · Virajes · 2014
Traces the principal stages in the historical development of Buenaventura’s Afro-Colombian Muslim community.
Ethnic Origins and Religious Transformations in the Afro-Colombian Muslim Community of Buenaventura
Diego Giovanni Castellanos · Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs · 2019
Explores the historical development and religious transformations of Buenaventura’s Muslim community and the relationship between religious and Afro-Colombian identity.
Medellín & Antioquia
An Area for Further Research
Compared with Bogotá and Buenaventura, relatively little academic research has examined the history and contemporary experience of Muslim communities in Medellín and the wider Antioquia region. Jusur hopes to encourage greater scholarly attention to Muslim life in this important and understudied part of Colombia.
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