This book explains the increasing incidences and normalisation of Islamophobia, by analysing the role of signifiers of free speech, censorship, and fatwa during the Satanic Verses affair in problematising the figure of the Muslim.
Ismail Adam Patel is a visiting Research Fellow at University of Leeds and the chair of UK based NGO Friends of Al-Aqsa.
Part 1. Critical Muslim Studies and Islamophobia.- 1. Perspective and Knowledge Formation.- 2. Islamophobia.- Part 2. Britishness: A Colonial Formation.- 3. The Empire Project and the Britishness.- 4. The Empire Project and the Figure of the Muslim.- Part 3. The Satanic Verses Affair and the Emergence of a Muslim Political Identity.- 5. The Satanic Verses Affair.- 6. The Emergence of a Muslim Political Identity.- 7. Conclusion: Anti-Islamophobia and Decolonial Disobedience.
