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Title: Daily Lives of Muslims: Islam and Public Confrontation in Contemporary Europe
Author: GOLE NILUFER
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 15/04/2017
Imprint: ZED BOOKS
Price: $42.00
Publishing status: Active
For many in the West, Islam has become a byword for terrorism. From 9/11 to the Paris attacks, our headlines are dominated by images of violence and extremism. Now, as the Western world struggles to cope with the refugee crisis, there is a growing obsession with the issue of Muslim integration. Those Muslims who fail to assimilate are branded the ‘enemy within’, with their communities said to provide a fertile breeding ground for jihadists. Such narratives, though, fail to take into account the actual lives of most Muslims living in the West, fixating instead on a minority of violent extremists. In The Daily Lives of Muslims, Nilufer Gole provides an urgently needed corrective to this distorted image of Islam. Engaging with Muslim communities in twenty-one cities across Europe where controversies over integration have arisen – from the banning of the veil in France to debates surrounding sharia law in the UK – the book brings the voices of this neglected majority into the debate.
In doing so, Gole uncovers a sincere desire among many Muslims to participate in the public sphere, a desire which is too often stifled by Western insecurity and attempts to suppress the outward signs of religious difference.
ISBN: 9781783609536
Weight: 454g
Dimension: 216mm X 135mm
Pages: 376