Muslim Minorities in Europe and India: Politics of Accommodation of Islamic Identities

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Since the late 20th century, the issue of accommodation of religious minorities within the structure of nation-states has been a subject of intense discussions among scholars and policy makers across the world. Most societies and nation-states in the world are either experiencing strains in accommodating the social, economic, and political concerns of minority communities or facing difficulties in managing majority-minority relationship. More than any other community, it is the integration of minority Muslim communities that has been the subject of global debates and deliberations, particularly in the western hemisphere. The emergence of political radicalism within some sections of Muslim communities in the West, and a series of terrorist attacks, has further compounded this problem. These developments have reinforced the pervasive thinking among a large section of non-Muslim host societies that Islam suffers from structural deficiencies for a meaningful integration in the host societies. This edited volume is a collection of 14 scholarly articles including an introduction, which deals with the problem of accommodation of Muslim minority communities in the European and Indian contexts. It interrogates the notion of modernity, Muslim modernity, secularism, pluralism and multiculturalism in both European and Indian settings. Linkages of religion, ethnicity, and politics for the integration of Muslim minorities within the structure of a nation-state are also explored in a cross-cultural comparative framework.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Anwar Alam

Anwar Alam is currently Professor and Director, Centre for West Asian Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.  He has served as a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), and Assistant and Associate Professor at the Centre for West Asian and African Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi.  He has been awarded the ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship (1991), International Visitor Programme (Islamic) Scholarship, USA, (2002) and Indo-French Social Scientist Exchange Programme Fellowship  (2003) and alexandor von Humboldt Post Doctoral Fellowship (2004-2006).  He has been Visiting Fellow at Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France, Centre for Citizenship and Ethnicity, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK and at International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), Leiden, Netherlands.  He has authored 4 books.  Besides, he has contributed several articles in national and international referred journals and chapters in edited books.  His areas of research interest include International Politics, Political Theory, Religion and Politics, Political Islam, Globalization and Muslim Society.

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Muslim Minorities in Europe and India: Politics of Accommodation of Islamic Identities
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Edition
1st. ed.
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9788177084306
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li+360p., Illustrations; 23cm.
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