New Horizons of Muslim Diaspora in Europe and North America [Hardcover]

This book provides insights into some of the social topics related to the homogenization and stereotyping of Muslims. It explores the experiences of Muslims in Western societies, with a particular focus not only on gender, home and belonging, multiculturalism, and ethnicity.

The authors in this book criticize the essentialist approach to the concept of culture which reduces all diasporic Muslims to one category and ignores other important factors that shape the attitudes and behaviors of Muslims in the West, particularly their socio-economic status, gender, age, education, social class, and attitude toward religion and the Western lifestyle. The majority of Muslims in North America and Europe are reluctant to be reduced to 'Muslim,' although some of them feel obliged to accept the label. In this volume, the various chapters reveal that diasporic Muslims are heterogeneous given their diverse cultures and ethnicities; they are actually divided, not united, and have different views and interpretations of Islam and various attitudes and representations of Western realities. Due to their marginalization and often low social status, some Muslims turn to religion and traditional values and practices to overlook for their socio-economic exclusion from the European or American society.Introduction: Contextualizing Muslim Diaspora in Europe and North America; Moha Ennaji

Part I HISTORICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL BACKGROUND
1. A Season of Migration to the West: The Arab-Muslim Diaspora in the United States: Political Ethos and Praxis; Younes Abouyoub
2. 'American Citizens of Arabic-speaking Stock': The Institute of Arab American Affairs and Questions of Identity in the Debate over Palestine; Denise Laszewski Jenison
3. The Master, the Pir and their Followers in Diaspora: G?len's Followers (Hizmet) and the Maktab Tariqat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi; Sherifa Zuhur
4. Muslim Diaspora in Europe and Cultural Diversity;lc0