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Book SynopsisCultural politics and the fear of Islam
Trade Review"Overall, the volume is an impressive collection of serious discursive analyses that heighten our sensitivities to the forms arguments about Islam take; while always indexes of power, it is clear that the shared terms of global debates about Islamic reform do not always correspond to shared meanings." —American Ethnologist
"Islamophobia/Islamophilia is a spirited volume that takes aim at the confining but dominant debate on Islam, 'for or against.' Its eye-opening cases demonstrate just how much opposed sides share, and reveal surprising alignments and crossovers that happen beyond the binary. Politically astute, analytically acute, and pervasively humanistic, this is a rare contribution that brings clarity to an ideologically charged and muddied field." —Engseng Ho, Duke University
"In all, this work is a rich and varied fare. What is welcome is the book's developed insight that Islamophilia can also be an act of wishful thinking and fantasy as much as Islamophobia. Morever, the latter can be propagated by Muslims. In all, this is a plea for a grown up engagement with Muslims who are as diverse as Christians and Jews." —The Muslim World Book Review, 31:4, 2011
"Very timely. An excellent contribution to humanistic scholarship by a number of leading scholars. The disciplinary range and nuance of the individual essays in this volume do a great job to illustrate and analyze how ahistorical, demeaning, or apologetic views of Muslims and Islam function and circulate." —Ussama Makdisi, Rice University
"... a collection at once serious and sensible in its scope, ambitions and outcome." —Bruce B. Lawrence, Religion Dispatches
"‘Islamophobia’ is an often used term in debates relating to Muslim minorities in Europe and the US post 9/11. The aim of this edited volume by Andrew Shryock is... to investigate the background of the term and reach a more thorough understanding of what it could entail and how it could be used and applied." —British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Islam as an Object of Fear and Affection: A Problem for Critical Analysis / Andrew Shryock
Part 1. Continuities and Transformations
1. Western Hostility toward Muslims: A History of the Present / Toma Mastnak
2. The Khalil Gibran International Academy: Diasporic Confrontations with an Emerging Islamophobia / Naamah Paley
Part 2. Modern (Self) Criticism
3. The God That Failed: The Neo-Orientalism of Today's Muslim Commentators / Moustafa Bayoumi
4. Gendering Islamophobia and Islamophilia: The Case of Shii Muslim Women in Lebanon / Lara Deeb
5. Bridging Traditions: Madrasas and Their Internal Critics / Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Part 3. Violence and Conversion in Europe
6. The Fantasy and Violence of Religious Imagination: Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism in France and North Africa / Paul A. Silverstein
7. German Converts to Islam and Their Ambivalent Relations with Immigrant Muslims / Esra zyürek
Part 4. Attraction and Repulsion in Shared Space
8. Muslim Ethnic Comedy: Inversions of Islamophobia / Mucahit Bilici
9. Competing for Muslims: New Strategies for Urban Renewal in Detroit / Sally Howell
List of Contributors
Index
