New horizons of Muslim diaspora in North America and Europe

Author(s)

• Ennaji, Moha

Bibliographic Information

New horizons of Muslim diaspora in North America and Europe

edited by Moha Ennaji

Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book provides insights into some of the social topics related to the homogenization and stereotyping of Muslims. It explores the experiences of Muslims in Western societies, with a particular focus not only on gender, home and belonging, multiculturalism, and ethnicity.

Table of Contents

• Introduction: Contextualizing Muslim Diaspora in Europe and North America
• Moha Ennaji Part I HISTORICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL BACKGROUND 1. A Season of Migration to the West: The Arab-Muslim Diaspora in the United States: Political Ethos and Praxis
• Younes Abouyoub 2. 'American Citizens of Arabic-speaking Stock': The Institute of Arab American Affairs and Questions of Identity in the Debate over Palestine
• Denise Laszewski Jenison 3. The Master, the Pir and their Followers in Diaspora: Gulen's Followers (Hizmet) and the Maktab Tariqat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi
• Sherifa Zuhur 4. Muslim Diaspora in Europe and Cultural Diversity
• Moha Ennaji Part II MUSLIM DIASPORA, MULTICULTURALISM, AND IDENTITY ISSUES 5. Muslim migrants and the push for religious multiculturalism in Canada
• Haideh Moghissi 6. 'I'm not different - because everybody is different.': Notions of belonging amongst Muslims in the Netherlands
• Lenie Brouwer 7. Telling and Retelling Karbal?': The Transnational Effect of the Use of Shi'a Narratives on Political and Social Participation amongst Shi'as in the United States
• Cyrus Ali Contractor 8. The Immigrant Food and 'Trans-Memory' of Home in Diana Abu-Naber's The Language of Baklava and Elif Shafak's Honor
• Eda Dedebas Dundar Part III REFLECTIONS ON MUSLIM DIASPORIC WOMEN 9. Women and Islam in the Western media
• Karen Vintges 10. Muslim North African Women and Migration in the Context of Globalization
• Fatima Sadiqi 11. Multiculturalism in Muslim America?: The Case of Health Disparities and Discrimination in 'Arab Detroit,' Michigan
• Marcia C. Inhorn 12. Voicing Resistance, Sharing Struggle: Muslim Women facing Canadian Gender, Race and Ethnic Oppression
• Naima Bendriss Part IV ASPECTS OF INTEGRATION, DISCRIMINATION AND ISLAMOPHOBIA 13. Salafism and Democracy - A German Debate
• Susanne Schroeter 14. Muslims in the Netherlands: a threatening community or a community under threat?
• Jan Jaap de Ruiter 15. Polygyny and the Performance of Gendered Power Among African American Muslims
• Debra Majeed 16. Muslim-Americans: Between the Challenge of Policing and Freedom of Expression
• Elizabeth Bishop Notes on Contributors Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BC09881083
• ISBN:
  • 9781137565242
• LCCN: 2015033209
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Basingstoke
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 282 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : D842.42.M87
  • DC23 : 305.6/97094
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Muslims -- Western countries
  • LCSH : Muslim diaspora
  • LCSH : Muslims -- Western countries -- Ethnic identity
  • LCSH : Muslims -- Cultural assimilation -- Western countries
  • LCSH : Multiculturalism
  • LCSH : United States -- Ethnic relations
  • LCSH : Europe -- Ethnic relations