Muslim Minorities in the West: Visible and Invisible - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 075910218X ISBN 13: 9780759102187

Publisher: AltaMira Press, 2002

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Yvonne Haddad is Professor of History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. Past president of the Middle East Studies Association, she has authored and edited many books on contemporary Islam. Jane I. Smith is Professor of Islamic Studies and Co-Director of the Macdonald Center for Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary. She has done extensive work on Muslim communities in America, Christian theology in relation to Islam, historical relations between Christians and Muslims, Islamic conceptions of death and afterlife, and the role and status of women in Islam. She is also co-editor of The Muslim World.

Review:

This is precisely the kind of material which should be available to a Western audience to put the situation and interests of the Muslim minorities into perspective, at a time when public agendas―media and political―seem to be set by reactions to the events of 11 September. (Jorgan S. Nielson, CSIC, University of Birmingham Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Vol 14.1, 2003)

This edited collection is a valuable addition to the literature. . . . This book brings together a fascinating collection of diverse and often rich accounts of Muslim life in different contexts. (Sophie Gilliat-Ray, Cardiff University, Wales American Journal of Islamic Social Studies)

About this edition

• Publisher: AltaMira Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 075910218X
• ISBN 13: 9780759102187
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Haddad Yvonne Yazbeck, Smith Jane I.