Routledge Handbooks / Routledge Handbook of Islam in the West

Introduction Part 1: History  Part 1.1: European Paradigms 1. The Borders of Muslim Spain  2. The Converted Muslims of Spain: Morisco Cultural Resistance and Engagement with Islamic Knowledge (1502-1610) 3. Muslims and Islam in Sicily from the mid XIth until the end of the XIIth Century: Contemporary Perceptions and Today's Interpretations 4. The Muslims in Southeastern Europe from Ottoman Subjects to European Citizens 5. Muslims in Western Europe in the Late Twentieth Century: Emergence and Transformation in 'Muslim' Revindications and Collective Mobilization Efforts Part 1.2: Muslims in the Americas  6. Islam in America: The Beginnings  7. Black Muslims 8. American Muslim Associational Life from 1950 to the Present 9. Islam in Mexico and Central America  10. Muslims in South America: History, Presence and Visibility of a Religious Minority in a Christian Context  Part 2: Culture   Part 2.1: Interactions, Conflicting, Converging 11. Europe's Identity Crisis, Islam in Europe, and the crisis of European Secularity 12. Emergence of a Western Muslim Identity: Factors, Agents and Discourses  13. The Multicultural Idea and Western Muslims  14. Social and Political Islamophobia: Stereotyping, Surveillance and Silencing  15. A Muslim Modernity: Ismaili Engagement with Western Societies 16. Conversion to Islam in Modern Western Europe and the United States 17. Muslim Political Radicalization in the West Part 2.2: Contributing to the Western World  18. Landscapes of Muslim Art and Architecture in the West 19.Islamic Organisations in the West: New Welfare Actors in the New Welfare Systems in Europe 20. Islam in Arts in USA  21. European Muslim Youth and Popular Culture: At the Crossroads of Fun and Faith  22. Muslim Material Culture in Western World  Part 2.3: Cotributing to Islam 23. A Religious

Roberto Tottoli (PhD, Naples 1996) is Professor of Islamic Studies in the Università di Napoli L'Orientale. He has published Biblical Prophets in the Qur'an and Muslim Literature (Richmond 2002) and The Stories of the Prophets of Ibn Mutarrif al-Tarafi (Berlin 2003) related to the Isra'iliyyat. His recent publications include (authored with Maria Luisa Russo and Michele Bernardini), Catalogue of the Islamic Manuscripts from the Kahle Collection in the Department of Oriental Studies of the University of Turin (Rome 2011) and the Italian translation of the Muwatta' by Malik b. Anas (Malik ibn Anas, al-Muwatta'. Manuale di legge islamica, (Turin 2011).

"Chapters ... cover almost all aspects of crisis and the concerns of Muslims living as minorities in the West. Here, readers can acquaint themselves with issues of minority identity, Islamophobia, tensions with multiculturalism, issues surrounding the scholarship on gender and feminism, economics, and banking. There is even attention given to youth and popular culture. This text is comprehensive. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries." - A.B. McCloud, DePaul University, in CHOICE, May 2015

They cover almost all aspects of crisis and the concerns of Muslims living as minorities in the West and here, readers can acquaint themselves with issues of minority identity, Islamophobia, tensions with multiculturalism, issues surrounding the scholarship on gender and feminism, economics, and banking. - A. B. McCloud, DePaul University