1st Edition

Anti-Muslim Prejudice Past and Present

Edited By Maleiha Malik Copyright 2010
230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

This collection makes a unique contribution to the study of anti-Muslim prejudice by placing the issue in both its past and present context. The essays cover historical and contemporary subjects from the eleventh century to the present day. They examine the forms that anti-Muslim prejudice takes, the historical influences on these forms, and how they relate to other forms of prejudice such as... Read more

1. Can the Walls Hear? - Gil Anidjar, Professor of English, Columbia University

2. Britons and Muslims in the Early Modern Period: From Prejudice to (a Theory of) Toleration - Nabil Matar, Professor of English, University of Minnesota

3. Revisiting Lepanto: The Political Mobilisation against Islam in Contemporary Western Europe - Susi Meret and Hans-Georg Betz (Professor Political Science, York University in Toronto)

4. French headscarves and Israeli uniforms: a comparative study of citizenship as mask - Leora Bilsky

5. Refutations of racism in the ‘Muslim question’ Dr Nasar Meer and Professor Tariq Modood, (Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, University of Bristol)

6. "Get shot of the lot of them": election reporting of Muslims in British newspapers  John E. Richardson

7. The Crusade over the Bodies of Women - Sonya Fernandez (Kent Law School, Kent University)

8. Anti-Turkish Obsession and Exodus of Balkan Muslims - Slobodan Drakulic, (Ryerson University)

9. Where do Muslims stand on ethno-racial hierarchies in Britain and France? Evidence from public opinion surveys, 1988-2008’ - Erik Bleich (Middlebury College)

10. Confronting Islamophobia in the United States: Framing civil rights activism – Erik Love (University of California at Santa Barbara)

Biography

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