Muslim Minorities in the West

Yvonne Haddad is Professor of History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. Past president of the Middle East Studies Association, she has authored and edited many books on contemporary Islam. Jane I. Smith is Professor of Islamic Studies and Co-Director of the Macdonald Center for Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary. She has done extensive work on Muslim communities in America, Christian theology in relation to Islam, historical relations between Christians and Muslims, Islamic conceptions of death and afterlife, and the role and status of women in Islam. She is also co-editor of The Muslim World.

• Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 The American Experience Chapter 3 Spreading the Word: Communicating Islam in America Chapter 4 The Politics of Transfiguration: Constitutive Aspects of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 Chapter 5 American Muslim Paradox Chapter 6 The Greatest Migration? Chapter 7 Islamic Party in North America: A Quiet Storm of Political Activism Chapter 8 The Complexity of Belonging: Sunni Muslim Immigrants in Chicago Chapter 9 Being Arab and Becoming Americanized: Mediated Assimilation in Metropolitan Detroit Part 10 The European Experience Chapter 11 Invisible Muslims: The Sahelians in France Chapter 12 The Northern Way: Muslim Communities in Norway Chapter 13 Turks in Germany: Muslim Idenity "Between" States Part 14 The Experience in Areas of European Settlement Chapter 15 The Muslim Communities in Australia: The Building of a Community Chapter 16 Muslim Women as Citizens in Australia: Perth as a Case Study Chapter 17 Muslims in New Zealand Chapter 18 Muslims in South Africa 19 Muslims in the Caribbean: Ethnic Sojourners and Citizens

This is precisely the kind of material which should be available to a Western audience to put the situation and interests of the Muslim minorities into perspective, at a time when public agendas-media and political-seem to be set by reactions to the events of 11 September. -- Jorgan S. Nielson, CSIC, University of Birmingham Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Vol 14.1, 2003 This edited collection is a valuable addition to the literature... This book brings together a fascinating collection of diverse and often rich accounts of Muslim life in different contexts. -- Sophie Gilliat-Ray, Cardiff University, Wales American Journal of Islamic Social Studies