1st Edition

Anti-Muslim Prejudice Past and Present

Edited By Maleiha Malik Copyright 2010
    230 Pages
    by Routledge

    230 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 racism, antisemitism or sexism, and indeed how anti-Muslim prejudice becomes institutionalized.

    This volume looks at anti-Muslim prejudice from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, including politics, sociology, philosophy, history, international relations, law, cultural studies and comparative literature. The essays contribute to our understanding of the different levels at which anti-Muslim prejudice emerges and operates - the local, the national and the transnational – by also including case studies from a range of contexts including Britain, Europe and the US.

    This book contributes to a deeper understanding of contemporary political problems and controversial topics, such as issues that focus on Muslim women: the 'headscarf' debates, honour killings and forced marriages. There is also analysis of media bias in the representation of Muslims and Islam, and other urgent social and political issues such as the social exclusion of European Muslims and the political mobilisation against Islam by far-right parties.

    This book was published as a special issue of Patterns of Prejudice.

    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.