Spain Unmoored: Migration, Conversion, and the Politics of Islam [Paperback]

Long viewed as Spain's most Moorish city, Granada is now home to a growing Muslim population of Moroccan migrants and European converts to Islam. Mikaela H. Rogozen-Soltar examines how various residents of Granada mobilize historical narratives about the city's Muslim past in order to navigate tensions surrounding contemporary ethnic and religious pluralism. Focusing particular attention on the gendered, racial, and political dimensions of this new multiculturalism, Rogozen-Soltar explores how Muslim-themed tourism and Islamic cultural institutions coexist with anti-Muslim sentiments.

Mikaela H. Rogozen-Soltar is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada Reno. Her research focuses on the intersections of religion, migration, historical memory, and gender in the Mediterranean..Click here to view her faculty bio.

An impressively accomplished ethnography of the ambivalent inclusion and exclusion of Islam and Muslims in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. Detailing a set of social encounters between migrant Muslims, Spanish Muslim converts, and non-Muslim Granadians, Rogozen-Soltar successfully charts the 'unequal multiculturalism' resulting from the peripheral city's harnessing of a historical narrative ofconvivenciato its claims for a privileged position within Spanish and European cosmopolitan modernity.

This timely, well-researched and engaging book examines the ways Muslim residents of Granada see themselves, and are seen by others, in relation to Granada's Arab past. . . . [B]y illuminating many aspects of the relationships between and within Muslims and non-Muslims in Granada today,Spain Unmooredwill be of great interest to students and scholars interested in Spain, Islam and multiculturalism in Europe today.

Of all the book's persuasive arguments, what stands out is Rogozen-Soltar's careful engagement of the l3-