Anti-Muslim Prejudice : Past and Present

ISBN-13: 9780415549875 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 232 str.

Maleiha Malik

Opis

This is one of the few books that is dedicated to exploring the historical, cultural and political context within which prejudice about Muslims/Islam has been constructed, out of which it has emerged and in which it is manifested.

This book was published as a special issue of Patterns of Prejudice.

This book makes a unique contribution to the study of anti-Muslim prejudice by placing the issue in both its past and present context. They cover historical and contemporary subjects from around the eleventh century through to the contemporary period. The book examines the form that anti-Muslim/Islamic prejudice takes; historical influences on contemporary forms of anti-Muslim/Islamic prejudice; how such prejudice relates to other forms of prejudice, e.g. racism, antisemitism, sexism; and how prejudice becomes institutionalized.

This book concentrates on the contemporary period, but it also hopes to place this debate in its historical context: by examining, for example, the medieval period as a forerunner to contemporary forms of prejudice; and the impact of colonial expansion in the Muslim world. The book also includes a study of anti-Muslim prejudice from a wide range of disciplines, including politics, sociology, philosophy, history, international relations, law and cultural studies and comparative literature. The book also contributes to our understanding of the different levels at which anti-Muslim prejudice emerges and operates - the local, the national and the transnational – by including case studies from a range of contexts including Britain, Europe and the US.

This book was published as a special issue of Patterns of Prejudice.

Spis treści

1. Anti-Muslim prejudice in the West, past and present: an introduction  Maleiha Malik  2. Britons and Muslims in the early modern period: from prejudice to (a theory of) toleration  Nabil Matar  3. Anti-Turkish obsession and the exodus of Balkan Muslims  Slobodan Drakulic  4. Can the walls hear?  Gil Anidjar  5. The crusade over the bodies of women  Sonya Fernandez  6. Muslim headscarves in France and army uniforms in Israel: a comparative study of citizenship as mask  Leora Bilsky  7. Revisiting Lepanto: the political mobilization against Islam in contemporary Western Europe  Hans-Georg Betz and Susi Meret  8. Refutations of racism in the "Muslim question"  Nasar Meer and Tariq Modood  9. "Get shot of the lot of them": election reporting of Muslims in British newspapers  John E. Richardson  10. Where do Muslims stand on ethno-racial hierarchies in Britain and France? Evidence from public opinion surveys, 1988-2008  Erik Bleich  11. Confronting Islamophobia in the United States: framing civil rights activism among Middle Eastern Americans  Erik Love

O autorze

Maleiha Malik is Reader in Law at the School of Law, King’s College, University of London.