...Rita Chin A striking aspect of contemporary European debates about immigrants is the focus on the Muslim woman as the key figure through which objections to Islamic cultural difference have been articulated. This article traces how sexual politics became central to German public debates about guest...

... such a repressive policy toward Muslim women was unanimously embraced by the conservative majority and some left-wing leaders with so little protest. It aims at underscoring the specific phenomena that, on the basis of a new “orientalism,” contribute in France to institutionalizing a category of people on the basis...

... the political future of India. Dr. Ambedkar Pakistan or Partition of India, vii If the Muslims in India are a separate nation, then, of course, India is not a na- tion. Ibid...

...Ashis Nandy This story can be read as a case study of a heartless killer sentenced to life imprisonment not for killing Muslims but for killing Gandhi because of his bias for the Muslims. Had Madanlal Pahwa not been part of the conspiracy, he would have gone scot-free. Yet that impunity...

...Mayanthi L. Fernando The politics of recognition remains a common way to articulate and adjudicate minorities’ claims, yet, as a number of scholars have argued, calling on the state for redress serves to secure the state’s sovereignty. Drawing on Muslim French activism in France, the author...

...Patrick Eisenlohr Abstract In Mumbai the sonic dimensions of place‐making and religious life are deeply connected to the right to the city. For Twelver Shi‘i Muslims, who are marginal to both the city and the nation, public religious rituals and processions have long played very important roles...

...Darren Byler Abstract This article examines the digital enclosure of Muslim minority data and labor through a techno-political “reeducation” system in Northwest China to make a broader argument about the way surveillance capitalism can be linked to ethno-racialization. Specifically, it considers...

...Kabir Tambar In much of the Muslim world, secularization has proceeded through the modernizing mechanisms of the region's various states. By contrast, social movements committed to the (re)introduction of religion into public and political life have frequently functioned through appeals...

...Judith Surkis This essay situates a recent French marriage annulment scandal in the context of debates about Islam, gender, and immigration; the relationship between the secularism of French law and Catholic marriage law; and the history of Muslim law under French colonial rule. Copyright 2010...

... images from a gay wedding in a speech meant to account for his skepticism about the EU. Drawing on the work of Judith Butler and Éric Fassin, the essay links these developments to a wider context of instrumentalization of sexual freedom in contemporary Europe (especially vis-à-vis Muslim minorities...

... Western stereotypes about Muslims, on the one hand, and, on the other, to transmit as “preachers by proxy” correct and relevant religious knowledge to viewers when, at times, the Arab preachers they subtitle fail to do so. Translators feel authorized to contest through subtitles both external...

... of Muslim women municipal employees who wash and shroud the deceased elucidated the foundational roles of scent and body weight in constituting martyrdom. This article demonstrates how the body politic operates—with various forms of acquiescence and repudiation—through sound, smell, and touch. Immaterial...

... the core of banal security nationalism, characterized by its ubiquitous and taken-for-granted presence in daily life. This form of nationalism is punctuated by moments of hot nationalism that erupt in the wake of attacks perpetrated by Muslims in the United States and other Western countries. Together...

... of Indian democracy — calls for a radical reimagining of intimate relations as the basis of belonging and the forming of political community. [email protected] Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 anti‐CAA protests Delhi India Islam Urdu poetry Muslim selfhood...

... that contemporary French anti-Semitism was “new,” the work no longer of Catholics or ethnonationalists but of Muslims and recent immigrants ( Brenner 2002 ; Finkielkraut 2003 ; Taguieff 2002) . More surprising still was the reaction the images provoked. The Catholic Church offered no official condemnation...

... insulting the Jewish community and more recent references to Muslims as “the secret column of goat-fuckers.” He was fat, purposefully unkempt, antiauthoritarian, satirical, and immoderate in his language — in short, a personification of the Dutch cul- tural ethos since the 1970s. He had frequently...

... and militancy. It has become de rigueur for leftists and liberals alike to link the fate of democracy in the Muslim world with the institutionalization of secularism — both as a political doctrine and as a political ethic. This cou- pling is now broadly echoed within the discourse emanating from the U.S...

...). Islam in Public: New Visibilities and New Imaginaries Nilüfer Göle slam has acquired new forms of visibility over the last two decades as it has Imade its way in the public avenues of both Muslim and European...

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