Islam and Muslims in the West: Major Issues and Debates (New Directions in Islam)

✍ Scribed by Adis Duderija, Halim Rane

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 262
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book analyzes the development of Islam and Muslim communities in the West, including influences from abroad, relations with the state and society, and internal community dynamics. The project examines the emergence of Islam in the West in relation to the place of Muslim communities as part of the social fabric of Western societies. It provides an overview of the major issues and debates that have arisen over the last three to four decades surrounding the presence of new Muslim communities residing in Western liberal democracies. As such, the volume is an ideal text for courses focusing on Islam and Muslim communities in the West.

✦ Table of Contents

Islam and Muslims in the West
Note on Transliteration
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
References
Chapter 2: Islam and Muslims in the West: History and Current Demographics
1 Introduction
2 Broad Outlines of Interactions Between Arabo-Islamic and Western-Christian Civilisations
2.1 Period from the End of the Seventh to the Beginning of the Ninth Century
2.2 Beginning of the Ninth Until the Eleventh Century
2.3 From the End of the Eleventh to the Fifteenth Century
2.4 The Period Between the Fifteenth and the Seventeenth Centuries
2.5 The Period from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century
2.6 The Colonial–Post-colonial Period
2.7 The Post-colonial Period to Present
2.8 Contemporary Western Muslim Communities’ Identity Construction in the West
3 A Brief History of Muslim Presence in Europe, North America, and Australia
4 Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: Contemporary Islamic Orientations and Transnational Muslim Organisations in the West
1 Introduction
2 Discursive- Versus Sociological-Based Approaches to Typologies of Western Muslims
2.1 Discursive-Based Classifications/Orientations
2.2 Sociological-Based Approaches
3 Major Transnational Organisations
3.1 The Hizmet Movement (HM)
3.2 The European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFR)
4 Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: Immigration and Western Muslims’ Identity
1 Introduction
2 Migration and Identity Changes in New Immigrant, Religious Minority Communities in the West
3 Migration and Identity Changes in New Muslim Immigrant Communities in the West
4 The Role of Scriptural Hermeneutics in Western Muslims’ Identity Construction
5 Immigrant Muslim Women and Western Muslims’ Identity Construction
6 Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: Multiculturalism
1 Introduction
2 Background
3 Retreat from Multiculturalism
4 Western Public and Muslim Community Perspectives
5 Islamism
6 Conclusion
References
Chapter 6: Institutionalisation of Islam
1 Introduction
2 Overview
3 Development
4 Processes
4.1 Colonial Experiences
4.2 Constitutional Arrangements
4.3 Precedents of Other Religious Communities
4.4 Social Integration and National Security
5 Islam Councils
6 Shariah Institutions
7 Alternate Initiatives
8 Conclusion
References
Chapter 7: Female Religious Authority
1 Introduction
2 Muslim Women in Western Muslim Organisations and Mosques: A Brief Overview
3 Female Religious Leadership as Gender Jihad in the West
4 Populist–Activist-Based Gender Jihad: The Case of Asra Nomani and Irshad Manji
4.1 Irshad Manji
5 Scholarly Gender Jihad: The Case of Amina Wadud and Asma Barlas
5.1 Amina Wadud
5.2 Asma Barlas
6 Conclusion
References
Chapter 8: Converts
1 Introduction
2 Numbers of Converts?
3 Which Islam?
4 Identity
5 Social Relations
5.1 Family and Friends
5.2 Relations with Muslim Community
5.3 Relations with Wider Society
6 Potential Bridge and for Shaping Islam in the West?
7 Conclusion
References
Chapter 9: Islamist Militants and Home-Grown Terrorism
1 Introduction
2 Key Concepts
2.1 Terrorism and Home-Grown Terrorism
2.2 Radicalisation
2.3 Islamism and Jihadism
2.4 Home-Grown Islamist Terrorism
2.5 Home-Grown Terrorists
3 Phases, Stages, and Models: A Process of Radicalisation?
4 Opportunities to Radicalise: Prison and the Internet
5 The Role of Religion
6 Combatting Home-Grown Terrorism
7 Challenges of Researching Islamist Terrorism
8 Conclusion
References
Chapter 10: Islamophobia
1 Introduction
2 Origins
3 Definitions
4 Manifestations and Extent
5 Causes
6 Critiques of Islamophobia
7 Conclusion
References
Chapter 11: Minority Fiqh (Fiqh al-Aqalliyyat)
1 Introduction
2 Broader Context Behind the Emergence of Minority fiqh
3 Historical Overview of the Emergence of Minority fiqh
4 Definition, Presuppositions, Significance, and Purposes of Minority fiqh
5 Overview of the Main Theoretical Approaches to Minority fiqh
6 The Main Issues in Minority fiqh Discourse
7 Criticisms of Minority fiqh Discourse
8 Conclusion
References
Chapter 12: An Emerging Western Islam
1 Introduction
2 Some Significant Factors and Processes Facilitating the Emergence of a Distinct Western Muslim Identity/Western Islam
2.1 Increasing Institutionalisation of Islam in the West
2.2 Western Muslim Converts
2.3 Religious Music
2.4 Western Languages
2.5 Western Muslim Intellectuals and the Emergence of a Western Muslim Identity
Tariq Ramadan
Rethinking Interpretation of Islamic Intellectual Tradition
The Idea of Social-Political Engagement and Citizenship
Bassam Tibi
3 Conclusion
References
Chapter 13: Conclusion
Reference
Index