Islamophobia/Islamophilia : beyond the politics of enemy and friend /

""A spirited volume that takes aim at the confining but dominant debate on Islam, f̀or or against.' Politically astute, analytically acute, and pervasively humanistic, this is a rare contribution that brings clarity to an ideologically charged and muddied field."--Engseng Ho, Duk...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Shryock, Andrew
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2010
Series:Indiana series in Middle East studies.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Islam as an object of fear and affection / Andrew Shryock
  • Western hostility toward Muslims : a history of the present / Tomaž Mastnak
  • The Khalil Gibran International Academy : diasporic confrontations with an emerging Islamophobia / Naamah Paley
  • The God that failed : the neo-orientalism of today's Muslim commentators / Moustafa Bayoumi
  • Gendering Islamophobia and Islamophilia : the case of Shiʻia Muslim women in Lebanon / Lara Deeb
  • Bridging traditions : Madrasas and their internal critics / Muhammad Qasim Zaman
  • The fantasy and violence of religious imagination : Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in France and North Africa / Paul A. Silverstein
  • German converts to Islam and their ambivalent relations with immigrant Muslims / Esra Özyürek
  • Muslim ethnic comedy : inversions of Islamophobia / Mucahit Bilici
  • Competing for Muslims : new strategies for urban renewal in Detroit / Sally Howell.