Description

Although they are typically portrayed by the media as dangerous extremists in distant lands, Muslims in fact form a permanent, peaceful and growing population in nearly every Western country. While Westerners are now more commonly seeing mosques in their neighborhoods or scarved Muslim women in their streets, misperceptions and stereotypes remain. With expanding numbers and desires to protect their rights and identities, Muslims are coming into more and more into the public view. In Muslim Minorites in the West noted scholars Haddad and Smith bring together outstanding essays on the distinct experiences of minority Muslim communities from Detroit, Michigan to Perth, Australia and the wide range of issues facing them. Haddad and Smith in their introduction trace the broad contours of the Muslim experience in Europe, America and other areas of European settlement and shed light on the common questions minority Muslims face of assimilation, discrimination, evangelism, and politics. Muslim Minorities in the West provides a welcome introduction to these increasingly visible citizens of Western nations.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 The American Experience
Chapter 3 Spreading the Word: Communicating Islam in America
Chapter 4 The Politics of Transfiguration: Constitutive Aspects of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998
Chapter 5 American Muslim Paradox
Chapter 6 The Greatest Migration?
Chapter 7 Islamic Party in North America: A Quiet Storm of Political Activism
Chapter 8 The Complexity of Belonging: Sunni Muslim Immigrants in Chicago
Chapter 9 Being Arab and Becoming Americanized: Mediated Assimilation in Metropolitan Detroit
Part 10 The European Experience
Chapter 11 Invisible Muslims: The Sahelians in France
Chapter 12 The Northern Way: Muslim Communities in Norway
Chapter 13 Turks in Germany: Muslim Idenity "Between" States
Part 14 The Experience in Areas of European Settlement
Chapter 15 The Muslim Communities in Australia: The Building of a Community
Chapter 16 Muslim Women as Citizens in Australia: Perth as a Case Study
Chapter 17 Muslims in New Zealand
Chapter 18 Muslims in South Africa
19 Muslims in the Caribbean: Ethnic Sojourners and Citizens

Product details

Published Mar 11 2002
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 328
ISBN 9780759102187
Imprint AltaMira Press
Dimensions 231 x 150 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad

Anthology Editor

Jane I. Smith

Contributor

Kathleen Moore

Contributor

Agha Saheed

Contributor

Garbi Schmidt

Contributor

Gary David

Contributor

James Helicke

Contributor

A H. Johns

Contributor

Samina Yasmeen

Contributor

William Shepard

Contributor

Tamara Sonn

Contributor

John Voll

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