Global Histories and Practices of Islamophobia
A comprehensive overview of manifestations of Islamophobia worldwide.
Description
With Islamophobia becoming a household term during the past decade, it has become more urgent to investigate the history and development of this modern concept.
Although the term ‘Islamophobia’ has a relatively recent origin, historians recognise that fear and hatred of Islam and its followers have a long and unfortunate lineage. Expressions of Islamophobia have had world-altering consequences—from the premodern Christian theological hostility to the Islamic faith and the papal discourses that helped prompt the First Crusade, to Orientalist scholars and contemporary politicians who have used it to justify imperial domination. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this volume brings together experts from around the world to analyse the global, historical, theological and political dimensions of Islamophobia. The contributors cover topics including historical practices of Orientalism; the impact of theological disputes with Islam within faith traditions; state policies on immigration; the role of gender, empire and post-colonialism; government-led discrimination against Muslims; ethnic cleansing; and the relationship between Islamophobia and the rise of the national security state.
Featuring chapters from leading and emerging voices in recent scholarship on Islamophobia, this volume provides the vital historical context to understand the growing intolerance of today’s world.
Table of contents
Table of Contents Introduction Abdullah Al-Arian and Karine Walther, Georgetown University in Qatar
1. Reading the Unstated: The Erasure, Exile, and Elision of Islamic thought in Western Philosophy, Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania
2. Is this the Age of Islamophobia? by Salman Sayyid, University of Leedas, & AbdoolKarim Vakil, King’s College London
3. Islamic Modernism: The Bridge to Secular Authoritarianism by Andrew Hammond, University of Oxford
4. Islam as Founding Fear: Turkish National Humanism and “the Muslim Orient” by Firat Oruc, Georgetown University in Qatar
5. Premodern Islamophobia in Late Imperial China: Hui-phobia by Haiyun Ma, Frostburg State University
6. The Moriscos and their Descendants: Between the Memory of Past Violence and Contemporary Islamophobia by Ali Alsmadi, Indiana University
7. Remembering Algeria’s Future: Islamophobic Imaginations in “Algerianist” Settler- Colonial Literature and its Legacies by Valentin Duquet
8. Against Muslimness: Islamophobia in Indian-Occupied Kashmir by Hafsa Kanjwal, Lafayette College
9. Loathing and Learning: Islamophobia and the Long Shadow of U.S. Colonialism by Oli Charbonneau, University of Glasgow
10. Colonial and Postcolonial Governance of Islam in Germany by Farid Hafez, Williams College
11. Zionism, Judeophobia, and Islamophobia by Haim Bresheeth-Žabner, University of East London
12. Producing “Terror:” Gendered State Prosecutions and the U.S. Racial State by Carol W.N. Fadda, Syracuse University
13. Rich Muslim, Bad Muslim: The Political Economy of Islamophobia by Thomas Simsarian Dolan, Emory University and Zaynab Quadri
14. Islamophobia and the Sea by Shereen Fernandez, LSE
15. Tracking Contemporary “Islamophobia” and its International Impact by John L. Esposito, Georgetown University
16. The Colonial Template for Islamophobia: Precursor to a Triple Massacre in Palestine by Ebrahim Rasool 17. Modi’s India: The Global Capital of Islamophobia by Afreen Fatima 18. French Muslims and the Colonial Republic by Yasser Louati
Editor(s)
Abdullah Al-Arian is Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University in Qatar, the author of Answering the Call: Popular Islamic Activism in Sadat's Egypt and the editor of Football in the Middle East.
Karine V. Walther is Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University, Qatar, and the author of Sacred Interests: The United States and the Islamic World, 1821–1921.
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