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The Bloomsbury reader on Islam in the West
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ISBN: 9781474245364 9781474245371 9781474245388 9781474245395 1474245390 1474245374 1474245382 1474245366 Year: 2015 Publisher: London Bloomsbury academic

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"For more than a millennium, Islam has been a vital part of Western civilization. Today, however, it is sometimes assumed that Islam is a foreign element inside the West, and even that Islam and the West are doomed to be in perpetual conflict. The need for accurate, reliable scholarship on this topic has never been more urgent. The Bloomsbury Reader on Islam in the West brings together some of the most important, up-to-date scholarly writings published on this subject. The Reader explores not only the presence of Muslim religious practitioners in Europe and the Americas but also the impact of Islamic ideas and Muslims on Western politics, societies, and cultures. It is ideal for use in the university classroom, with an extensive introduction by Edward E. Curtis IV and a timeline of key events in the history of Islam in the West. A brief introduction to the author and the topic is provided at the start of each excerpt. Part 1, on the history of Islam in the West, probes the role of Muslims and the significance of Islam in medieval, early modern, and modern settings such as Islamic Spain, colonial-era Latin America, sixteenth-century France, nineteenth-century Crimea, interwar Albania, the post-World War II United States, and late twentieth-century Germany. Part 2 focuses on the contemporary West, examining debates over Muslim citizenship, the war on terrorism, anti-Muslim prejudice, and Islam and gender, while also providing readers with a concrete sense of how Muslims practise and live out Islamic ideals in their private and public lives"-- "For more than a millennium, Islam has been a vital part of Western civilization. Today, however, it is sometimes assumed that Islam is a foreign element inside the West, and even that Islam and the West are doomed to be in perpetual conflict. The need for accurate, reliable scholarship on this topic has never been more urgent.The Bloomsbury Reader on Islam in the West brings together some of the most important, up-to-date scholarly writings published on this subject. The Reader explores not only the presence of Muslim religious practitioners in Europe and the Americas but also the impact of Islamic ideas and Muslims on Western politics, societies, and cultures. It is ideal for use in the university classroom, with an extensive introduction by Edward E. Curtis IV and a timeline of key events in the history of Islam in the West. A brief introduction to the author and the topic is provided at the start of each excerpt. Part 1, on the history of Islam in the West, probes the role of Muslims and the significance of Islam in medieval, early modern, and modern settings such as Islamic Spain, colonial-era Latin America, sixteenth-century France, nineteenth-century Crimea, interwar Albania, the post-World War II United States, and late twentieth-century Germany. Part 2 focuses on the contemporary West, examining debates over Muslim citizenship, the war on terrorism, anti-Muslim prejudice, and Islam and gender, while also providing readers with a concrete sense of how Muslims practise and live out Islamic ideals in their private and public lives"--


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La chasse aux musulmans : évincer les musulmans de l'espace politique
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ISBN: 9782895961178 2895961174 Year: 2011 Publisher: Montréal (Québec) : Lux éditions,

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Trois personnages emblématiques caractérisent la guerre contre le terrorisme : le " dangereux " Musulman, la Musulmane " en péril " et l'Européen " civilisé ". Le présent ouvrage étudie la manière dont ces trois figures sont utilisées pour créer une véritable fable, celle d'une grande famille de nations occidentales qui s'estiment contraintes d'employer la force, tant militaire que politique et juridique, pour se protéger contre la " menace " des populations du tiers-monde. Sherene Razack montre qu'on entretient délibérément cette fable pour justifier l'expulsion des Musulmans de l'espace politique, en les stigmatisant d'abord, puis en les plaçant sous surveillance, en les emprisonnant, en les torturent, ou en larguant des bombes sur leurs pays. Dans cet essai d'une grande actualité, Sherene Razack explique de quelle façon la " pensée raciale " - logique qui divise le monde entre ceux qui méritent d'être protégés par les lois et ceux qui ne le méritent pas - nous habitue à l'idée qu'il est nécessaire et légitime, pour des raisons de sécurité nationale, de suspendre les droits de certains groupes raciolisés. L'auteure montre aussi que le refus de reconnaître une même nature humaine chez les peuples d'ascendance européenne et ceux qui ne le sont pas a favorisé l'implantation et la prolifération de " camps ", au sens propre et figuré, c'est-à-dire de lieux où les libertés fondamentales sont bafouées et les lois ignorées.


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The invisible muslim : journeys through whiteness and islam
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ISBN: 9781787383029 1787383024 Year: 2020 Publisher: London Hurst & Company


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The new Muslim Brotherhood in the West
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ISBN: 9780231151269 9780231522298 0231522290 0231151268 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York Columbia University Press

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In both Europe and North America, organizations tracing their origins back to the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist movements have rapidly evolved into multifunctional, richly funded organizations. They now compete to become the major representatives of Western Muslim communities and government interlocutors. Some analysts and policy makers see these organizations as positive forces encouraging integration. Others treat them as modern-day Trojan horses that feign moderation while radicalizing Western Muslims. Lorenzo Vidino brokers a third and more informed view. Having completed more than


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Engaging the other : public policy and Western-Muslim intersections
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ISBN: 9781137403681 1137403683 1137403691 1349487082 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York, NY Palgrave Macmillan

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"A multidisciplinary study of Western-Muslim interactions in historical and contemporary times, this volume explores ways of enhancing productive engagement in domestic and transnational contexts. Leading scholars discuss Western-Muslim intersections in the areas of civil society, educational curriculum, government policy, legal reform, media production, political participation, public discourse, and public opinion. This book appears at a time when Western forces are withdrawing from Afghanistan and policymakers are exploring the viability of long-term approaches that go beyond securitization and militarization. Engaging the Other will appeal to readers specifically interested in policy issues relating to conflict, culture, diaspora, education, immigration, inter-faith dialogue, intercultural and international relations, Islam and the West, law, media, multiculturalism, national security, political participation, public discourse, public policy, and religion"--


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Muslim Volunteering in the West : Between Islamic Ethos and Citizenship
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ISBN: 9783030260569 3030260569 3030260577 9783030260576 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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“The words Islam and volunteering rarely go in tandem, especially in the West. This book proves how wrong we are. From Australia to America, the chapters demonstrate the scope and intricacies of Muslim diaspora volunteering. A must read for anyone interested in the intersection of religion and volunteering.” — Ram A. Cnaan, Professor and Director, Program for Religion and Social Policy Research, University of Pennsylvania, USA “This book identifies the ways in which religious Muslimness is akin to participatory citizenship in the secular sense. The collection is a significant contribution to a discussion in relation to the norms and values that Muslims derive from readings within Islam.”—Tahir Abbas, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University, The Netherlands “This volume opens an important conversation on the nature and multiple ethical configurations of Islamic volunteering in the West, as it is caught between various political, secular and security constraints. The contributions offer important insights into how Muslim activists navigate these different constraints, thereby raising important questions on citizenship, solidarity and ethical self-making.” —Nadia Fadil, Associate Professor, KU Leuven, Belgium This edited volume explores various facets of Muslims’ civic engagement in Western post-secular societies, fundamentally challenging simplistic boundaries between Islamic ethical conduct and liberal-democratic norms and practice. Bringing together scholars from sociology, anthropology, and Islamic theology, the collection offers sound theoretical and empirical elaborations on the complex ways in which Islamic piety, principles and norms interact with, and shape, Muslims’ everyday practice of volunteering as a performance of active citizenship in liberal societies. The contributions cover diverse manifestations of Muslim volunteering in North America, Europe and Australia, from environmentalism to mental health volunteering, and critically examine the national and global socio-political context within which certain forms of Muslims’ civic engagement are viewed with skepticism and suspicion. It will be of use to students and scholars across sociology, political science, community studies and Islamic studies, with a focus on migrant integration, diaspora studies, and inter-ethnic relations.


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State, religion, and Muslims
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ISBN: 9789004421455 9004421459 9789004421516 9004421513 Year: 2020 Volume: 33 Publisher: Leiden Boston BRILL

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"State, Religion and Muslims: Between Discrimination and Protection at the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Levels brings together the academics from different academic disciplines and offers an in-depth analysis of discrimination against Muslims in western countries affecting them in specific areas of life. The volume provides a comprehensive look at the legislative, executive and judicial dimensions of discrimination across the 12 Western countries situating discriminatory practices in their institutional framework with a multidisciplinary look. Exploring the most formidable aspects of the discrimination against Muslims - education, employment, exercise of religion, state relations with religious communities and hate crime and hate speech - the volume illustrates that the individual, structural and institutional discrimination against Muslims living in western countries has become a routine".


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The Closed Circle : Joining and Leaving the Muslim Brotherhood in the West
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ISBN: 0231550448 023119367X 9780231193665 9780231193672 0231193661 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press,

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The Muslim Brotherhood in the West remains a mysterious entity. In The Closed Circle, Lorenzo Vidino offers an unprecedented inside view into how one of the world’s most influential Islamist groups operates. He marshals unique interviews with prominent former members and associates from Europe, the United Kingdom, and North America, shedding light on why and how people join and leave Western outfits of the Muslim Brotherhood.Drawing on these striking personal accounts, Vidino weaves together the experiences of individuals who participated in and later renounced Brotherhood groups. Their perspectives provide a wealth of new information about the Brotherhood’s secretive inner workings and the networks that connecting the small yet highly organized cluster of Brotherhood-influenced groups. The Closed Circle examines the tactics the Brotherhood uses to recruit and retain participants as well as how and why individuals make the difficult decision to leave. Through the stories of diverse former members, Vidino paints a portrait of a highly structured, tight-knit movement. His unprecedented access and understanding of the group’s activities and motivations has significant policy implications concerning Western Brotherhood organizations and also illuminates the underlying mechanisms found in a range of extremist groups.


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Islam and Muslims in the West : major issues and debates
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ISBN: 9783319925103 9783319925097 3319925105 3319925091 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York, New York : Springer Science+Business Media,

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This book analyzes the development of Islam and Muslim communities in the West, including influences from abroad, relations with the state and society, and internal community dynamics. The project examines the emergence of Islam in the West in relation to the place of Muslim communities as part of the social fabric of Western societies. It provides an overview of the major issues and debates that have arisen over the last three to four decades surrounding the presence of new Muslim communities residing in Western liberal democracies. As such, the volume is an ideal text for courses focusing on Islam and Muslim communities in the West. Adis Duderija is Lecturer in the Study of Islam and Society in the School of Languages and Social Science, Griffith University, Australia. Halim Rane is Associate Professor of Islam-West Relations in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, Griffith University, Australia.


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La rencontre complexe : occidents et islams
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ISBN: 2872097554 9782872097555 Year: 2004 Volume: 1 Publisher: Louvain-la-Neuve Academia-Bruylant

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