ISBN:
1848133022
,
9781282453548
,
9781848133020
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (271 p.)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Muslim Spaces of Hope : Geographies of Possibility in Britain and the West
DDC:
942
Keywords:
Muslims Politics and government
;
Islam and politics
;
Islamic fundamentalism
;
Electronic books
;
Konferenzschrift 2008
Abstract:
Debates about contemporary Islam and Muslims in the West have taken some negative turns in the depressing atmosphere of the war on terror and its aftermath. This book argues that we have been too preoccupied with problems, not enough with solutions. It acknowledges but challenges what has come to be viewed as the 'Islamic problem' - the widespread perception or construction of Muslims as a troubled and troublesome minority - by asking what Muslims have to be hopeful about today, and how others might share this hope
Description / Table of Contents:
About the editor; Illustrations; Tables; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Muslim geographies - spaces of hope?; Muslim geographies; Spaces of hope?; References; Part One | Spaces of Hope?; 1 | Spaces of hope: interventions; Segregation; Integration; Britishness; Multiculturalism; Reference; 2 | Muslims in the West: deconstructing geographical binaries; 'The West' versus 'the Muslim Rest'; Table 2.1 Closed and open views of Islam; Table 2.1 Closed and open views of Islam; Segregation versus integration; Absent or demonized images versus positive representations
Description / Table of Contents:
Opening up spaces of hopeConclusion; References; 3 | The hopeful and exclusionary politics of Islam in Australia: looking for alternative geographies of 'Western Islam'; Muslims in Australia: settlement, issues and international trends in attitudes; The politics of anti-Islamic sentiment; Australian Muslims' everyday experiences of racism; Australian Muslims' hopes and expectations; Figure 3.1 Posters developed by Australians Against Racism Inc.; Figure 3.1 Posters developed by Australians Against Racism Inc.
Description / Table of Contents:
Figure 3.2 Anti-Islamophobia poster developed by the Islamic Women's Welfare Council of VictoriaFigure 3.2 Anti-Islamophobia poster developed by the Islamic Women's Welfare Council of Victoria; Sources and spaces of hope; Figure 3.3 The Gallipoli Mosque; Figure 3.3 The Gallipoli Mosque; Conclusions; References; Part Two | Convivial Cities; 4 | Veils and sales: Muslims and the spaces of post-colonial fashion retail; Dress as a spatialized practice; Veiling as a spatial system; Dress as a temporal practice: veiling, shopping and non-Western modernities
Description / Table of Contents:
Regulating bodies in space: shop dress codesConclusion: selling spaces; Notes; References; 5 | Citizenship and faith: Muslim scout groups; Geographies of Muslim youth; The space of youth (citizenship) movements; Creating Muslim Scouting spaces: the Muslim Scout Fellowship; 'Duty to Allah': 1st Cathays (Al-Huda) Scout Group; Ceremonial and sartorial Scouts; Figure 5.1 Sartorial scouting; Figure 5.1 Sartorial scouting; Landscape and camping; Figure 5.2 Pitching a tent; Figure 5.2 Pitching a tent; Conclusion; Notes; References; 6 | The utopian space of the Islamic bathhouse or hammam
Description / Table of Contents:
The hammam or Islamic bathhouseFigure 6.1 Hammam al-Silsila, Damascus; Figure 6.2 Hammam Tayrouzi, Damascus, the roofscape; Figure 6.3 Entrance of Hammam Sahib al-Tabaa', Tunis; Figure 6.1 Hammam al-Silsila, Damascus; Figure 6.2 Hammam Tayrouzi, Damascus, the roofscape; Figure 6.3 Entrance of Hammam Sahib al-Tabaa', Tunis; Figure 6.4 Hammam Malikal-Thaher, Damascus; Figure 6.4 Hammam Malikal-Thaher, Damascus; Figure 6.5 Hammam Sahib al-Tabaa', Tunis, al-wastani; Figure 6.6 A Cairo hammam, the hot room; Figure 6.5 Hammam Sahib al-Tabaa', Tunis, al-wastani
Description / Table of Contents:
Figure 6.6 A Cairo hammam, the hot room
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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