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Islam has long been a part of the West in terms of religion, culture, politics and society. This handbook provides coverage of that interaction. It includes chapters detailing the Muslim minority experience in Europe and the Americas and explores the influence Islam has had, and continues to exert.

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 Law for Muslims in the West: The European Council for Fatwa and Research and the Evolution of Wasati Fiqh al-Aqalliyyat al-Muslima  24. Ethical Questions in Western Islamic Experience 25. Gender, Feminism, and Critique in American Muslim Thought  26. Development and Perspectives of Islamic Economics (banking and finance) in the West 27. Production of Western Muslim Knowledge  28. Islam, Sufism and Post-modern in the Religious Melting-pot