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.
İçerik tablosu
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: Gülen’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 Schröter
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
Yazar hakkında
Moha Ennaji is Professor at the University of Fès, Morocco. He is a specialist of language, migration, and gender studies, with many publications in culture, minority, and ethnicity issues; for example, Ennaji’s most book recent book is titled
Muslim Moroccan Migrants in Europe. He is co-founder and president of the International Institute for Languages and Cultures, Fès, Morocco.
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