Islam and modernity : Muslims in Europe and the United States / Iftikhar H. Malik.

What's it like to be a Muslim living in the West today? And how different is it to the experiences of Muslims who lived in Western countries many generations ago? Recent events have given these questions a new importance. It is a difficult time right now for the Muslim diaspora throughout the U...

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Main Author: Malik, Iftikhar Haider, 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2004.
Series:Critical studies on Islam.
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Table of Contents:
  • Modernity and political Islam : contestants or companions?
  • The saga of Muslim Spain : pluralism to elimination
  • Muslims in Spain : beginning of an end
  • Islam and Britain : old cultures, odd encounters
  • Muslims in Britain : multiculturalism and the emerging discourse
  • Muslim in France, Germany and the European Union : aliens or allies?
  • Ireland and Islam : the green twins or worlds apart?
  • Islam and the United States : new friends or old enemies?