New Horizons of Muslim Diaspora in Europe and North America

Moha Ennaji is Professor at the University of Fès, Morocco. He is a specialist of language, migration, and gender studies, with many publications in culture, minority, and ethnicity issues; for example, Ennaji's most book recent book is titled Muslim Moroccan Migrants in Europe. He is co-founder and president of the International Institute for Languages and Cultures, Fès, Morocco.

"New Horizons of Muslim Diaspora in North America and Europe is a timely and wide-ranging volume that provides significant new insights into a topic that continues to increase in relevance and importance. The 16 contributions from scholars from a range of backgrounds explore an impressive array of aspects of Muslim diasporic communities, from religion to gender and from economics to cuisine, to help explain the contemporary experience. They record the remarkable diversity of the communities and their contexts while at the same time noting common challenges such as discrimination and debates over identity. As a whole, the book makes a crucial and informed contribution to a subject and a debate that more often than not elicit more heat than light." - Michael Willis, University of Oxford, UK "Professor Moha Ennaji has edited an important, well-researched, and inspiring book. It should be read by scholars, journalists, and politicians alike. It says important things about our common future, in America and Europe." - Fouad Laroui, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands "This volume, edited by Moha Ennaji, one of Morocco's most prolific and perceptive public intellectuals, provides a much-needed survey of a critical global issue - the complexities of the Muslim diasporic experience in North America and Europe. With contributions from recognized authorities on this question, the book displays both historical depth and a sensitivity to contemporary cultural and social matters, including those relating to gender; it will add significantly to our knowledge and understanding of both the immigrant experience and responses in the host countries." - Kevin Dwyer, Columbia University, USA

• Introduction: Contextualizing Muslim Diaspora in Europe and North America; Moha EnnajiPart I HISTORICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL BACKGROUND1. A Season of Migration to the West: The Arab-Muslim Diaspora in the United States: Political Ethos and Praxis; Younes Abouyoub2. 'American Citizens of Arabic-speaking Stock': The Institute of Arab American Affairs and Questions of Identity in the Debate over Palestine; Denise Laszewski Jenison 3. The Master, the Pir and their Followers in Diaspora: Gülen's Followers (Hizmet) and the Maktab Tariqat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi; Sherifa Zuhur4. Muslim Diaspora in Europe and Cultural Diversity; Moha EnnajiPart II MUSLIM DIASPORA, MULTICULTURALISM, AND IDENTITY ISSUES5. Muslim migrants and the push for religious multiculturalism in Canada; Haideh Moghissi6. 'I'm not different – because everybody is different.': Notions of belonging amongst Muslims in the Netherlands; Lenie Brouwer7. Telling and Retelling Karbal?': The Transnational Effect of the Use of Shi'a Narratives on Political and Social Participation amongst Shi'as in the United States; Cyrus Ali Contractor8. The Immigrant Food and 'Trans-Memory' of Home in Diana Abu-Naber's The Language of Baklava and Elif Shafak's Honor; Eda Dedebas DundarPart III REFLECTIONS ON MUSLIM DIASPORIC WOMEN9. Women and Islam in the Western media; Karen Vintges10. Muslim North African Women and Migration in the Context of Globalization; FatimaSadiqi11. Multiculturalism in Muslim America?: The Case of Health Disparities and Discrimination in 'Arab Detroit,' Michigan; Marcia C. Inhorn 12. Voicing Resistance, Sharing Struggle: Muslim Women facing Canadian Gender, Race and Ethnic Oppression; Naima BendrissPart IV ASPECTS OF INTEGRATION, DISCRIMINATION AND ISLAMOPHOBIA13. Salafism and Democracy – A German Debate; Susanne Schröter14. Muslims in the Netherlands: a threatening community or a community under threat?; Jan Jaap de Ruiter15. Polygyny and the Performance of Gendered Power Among African American Muslims; Debra Majeed16. Muslim-Americans: Between the Challenge of Policing and Freedom of Expression; Elizabeth BishopNotes on ContributorsIndex