Being Young and Muslim

Linda Herrera, Senior Lecturer in International Development Studies, is Convenor of the Children and Youth Studies M.A. specialization at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam.Asef Bayat, Professor of Sociology and Middle East Studies, holds the chair of Society and Culture of the Middle East and Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is the author of Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn (2007) and Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East (2010).

• Acknowledgements ; Introduction: Being Young and Muslim in Neoliberal Times ; Asef Bayat and Linda Herrera ; Politics of Dissent ; Muslim Youth and the Claim of Youthfulness ; Asef Bayat ; The Drama of Jihad: The Emergence of Salafi Youth in Indonesia ; Noorhaidi Hasan ; Moroccan Youth and Political Islam ; Mounia Bennani-Chraibi ; Rebels without a Cause? A Politics of Deviance in Saudi Arabia ; Abdullah al-Otaibi and Pascal Menoret ; The Battle of the Ages: Contests for Religious Authority in The Gambia ; Marloes Janson ; Cyber Resistance: Palestinian Youth and Emerging Internet Culture ; Makram Khoury-Machool ; Livelihoods and Lifestyles ; Young Egyptians' Quest for Jobs and Justice ; Linda Herrera ; Reaching a Larger World: Muslim Youth and Expanding Circuitries of Operation ; AbdouMaliq Simone ; Being Young, Muslim and American in Brooklyn ; Moustafa Bayoumi ; Strivings for Citizenship ; 'Also the School Is a Temple': Republicanism, Imagined Transnational Spaces, and the Schooling Of Muslim Youth in France ; Andre Elias Mazawi ; Avoiding "Youthfulness"? Young Muslims Negotiating Gender and Citizenship in France and Germany ; Schirin Amir-Moazami ; Struggles over Defining the Moral City: Islam and Urban Public Life in Iran ; Azam Khatam ; Navigating Identities ; Securing Futures: Youth, Generation, and Muslim Identities in Niger ; Adeline Masquelier ; "Rasta" Sufis and Muslim Youth Culture in Mali ; Benjamin F. Soares ; Performance, Politics and Visceral Transformation: Post-Islamist Youth in Turkey ; Ay?e Saktanber ; Negotiating with Modernity: Young Women and Sexuality in Iran ; Fatemeh Sadeghi ; Musical Politics ; Funental's "Jihad Rap" ; Ted Swedenburg ; Maroc-Hop: Music and Youth Identities in the Netherlands ; Miriam Gazzah ; Heavy Metal in the Middle East: New Urban Spaces in a Translocal Underground ; Pierre Hecker ; Music VCDs and the New Generation: Negotiating Youth, Femininity and Islam in Indonesia ; Suzanne Naafs ; Conclusion: Knowing Muslim Youth ; Linda Herrera and Asef Bayat ; References ; Author Bios

"This is an excellent collection of essays on youth in a number of Muslim majority (and minority) societies in the context of globalization and modernity. A particular strength of this volume is its ability to highlight the multiple and contested roles of religion and personal faith in the fashioning of contemporary youthful Muslim identities. Such insights often challenge secular Western master narratives of modernity and suggest credible reconceptualizations of what it means to be young and modern in a broad swath of the world today."