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Title Muslim spaces of hope : geographies of possibility in Britain and the West / edited by Richard Phillips
Published London ; New York : Zed Books : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Description 271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents Introduction : Muslim geographies--spaces of hope? / Richard Phillips -- One Spaces of hope? -- Spaces of hope : interventions / Ziauddin Sardar -- Muslims in the West : deconstructing geographical binaries / Peter Hopkins -- The hopeful and exclusionary politics of Islam in Australia : looking for alternative geographies of "Western Islam" / Kevn M. Dunn and Alanna Kamp -- Two Convivial cities -- Veils and sales : Muslims and the spaces of post-colonial fashion retail / Reina Lewis -- Citizenship and faith : Muslim scout groups / Sarah Mills -- The utopian space of the Islamic bathhouse or hamma ̄m / Magda Sibley and Fodil Fadli -- Making space for Muslims : housing Bangladeshi families in East London / Ayona Datta -- Three Economic and political empowerment -- Muslim economic initiatives : global finance and local projects / Jane Pollard, Hilary Lim and Raj Brown -- Muslims and the anti-war movements / Richard Phillips and Jamil Iqbal -- Liberalizing Islam : creating Brits of the Islamic persuasion / Sarah Glynn -- Four Integration and resistance -- British Muslims and "community cohesion" debates / Claire Dwyer and Varun Uberoi -- Residential integration : evidence from the UK census / M.A. Kevin Brice -- Muslim-American hyphenated identity : negotiating a positive path / Selcuk R. Sirin and Selen Imamoğlu -- "After 7/7" : challenging the dominant hegemony / Tahir Abbas
Summary "This book, by a collection of distinguished post-colonial critics, acknowledges but challenges the contemporary 'Islamic problem' by asking the ways Muslims experience hope and share it with others. Assertions of difference are put on hold, suggestions of compatibility entertained. Assumptions that Muslims are non-liberal and anti-modern are challenged with evidence about their negotiations of liberalism and modernity. The increased scrutiny of Muslim identities replaces overtly racist ideas with ostensibly ethnic, cultural and religious categories within discourses of social difference. New divisions between Muslims and others echo colonial binaries of black and white, colonized and colonizer, within practices of divide and rule. This book speaks in the context of wider debates about social difference, oppression and liberation." -- BOOK PUBLISHER WEBSITE
Analysis Muslim spaces
Muslim spaces
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Islam and politics -- Western countries.
Islam -- Western countries -- 21st century.
Muslims -- Non-Islamic countries.
Islamic fundamentalism -- Western countries.
Muslims -- Western countries -- Politics and government.
Author Phillips, Richard, 1965-
LC no. 2010293015
ISBN 1848133006 (hardcover)
1848133014 (paperback)
1848133022 (ebk.)
9781848133006 (hardcover)
9781848133013 (paperback)
9781848133020 (ebk.)