Political and Cultural Representations of Muslims: Islam in the PluralChristopher Flood, Stephen Hutchings, Galina Miazhevich, Henri Nickels Relations between Muslims and non-Muslims have received unprecedented attention since 9/11. In many predominantly non-Muslim countries intense debates have focused on international relations with Muslim-majority states, but dilemmas of national policy and practice in incorporating domestic Muslim minorities have also provoked heated argument. Meanwhile, within predominantly Muslim societies, and within Muslim diasporas, relationships with non-Muslims have posed pressing questions about compatibility, antagonism or adaptation of beliefs, identities and customs. The essays forming this multidisciplinary collection analyse concerns arising from clashing perceptions of Muslims in the political and cultural spheres: the majority of chapters deal with non-Muslim representations of Muslims, but several chapters reverse the perspective by examining Muslims' own understandings of their relationships with non-Muslim societies.Contributors include: Ahmed K. al-Rawi, Ebru '. Canan-Sokullu, Tereza Capelos, Gaetan Clavien, Danila Genovese, Matteo Gianni, Signe Kjær Jørgensen, Priyasha Kaul, Chloe Patton, Timothy Peace, Mirjam Shatanawi, Dunya van Troost, and John Turner. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 Uncovering an Islamic Paradigm of International Relations | 11 |
Through the Mirroring Lens of the Political Self | 25 |
3 Why Wear a Headscarf in Parliament? Danish Secularist Nationalist and Feminist Ideas about Muslims | 43 |
4 People Think Our Lives Are Dark Diasporic Resistance to the Metaphoric Darkening of Female Muslim Identity | 61 |
The Impact of Emotionality and Values on Political Tolerance | 75 |
6 Islamophobia and Turcoscepticism in Europe? A FourNation Study | 97 |
7 Representing Gender Defining Muslims? Gender and Figures of Otherness in Public Discourse in Switzerland | 113 |
8 The French AntiRacist Movement and the Muslim Question | 131 |
9 Foreign Policy and Its Impact on Arab Stereotypes in EnglishLanguage Popular Fiction of the 1970s80s | 147 |
Religion Identity and Nationalism | 167 |
Museums and the Public Debate on Islam | 177 |
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