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Islam in Europe: The Lure of Fundamentalism and the Allure of Cosmopolitanism
by Nilufer Gole
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Paperback / softback. New. Islam in Europe is a book full of striking images: the assassination of and the death threats against artists and intellectuals; violent demonstrations demanding Sharia [Koranic] law for Europe; acts of terrorism. Also detailed are European political initiatives and, in some cases, new laws that forbid the wearing of the burka in public spaces, the ban on minarets in Switzerland, and other efforts to keep Western culture "pure." But there is another reality, as Nilufer Goele describes it from her own life experience: Muslims who are politicians in European parliaments; scholars teaching in European universities; artists who use this creative intercultural exchange as a theme in their art. More visible are the hundreds of thousands of students, workers, merchants, and professionals who participate in every aspect of public life without concealing their heritage. Goele sees the best hope for a modern and European Islam in the Muslim women who - in contrast to the men - demonstrate their commitment to their heritage by wearing head scarves while participating in modern Western life. In manifesting their professional and public experience in their own communities, they become the agents of change and modernism. Goele thus sees European Islam as "feminine," in contrast to the male-dominated traditional Islam. As she said on PBS' Frontline, "Modernity is ... shaped, invented by values that were not the values of Muslim countries. That is one of the basic reasons for the separation between the modern world and the Muslim world, this either/or partition. If you are modern, you can't be a Muslim. But now we are going beyond this division - you can be both Muslim and modern."
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- Title
- Islam in Europe: The Lure of Fundamentalism and the Allure of Cosmopolitanism
- Author
- Nilufer Gole
- Format/Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Book Condition
- New
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- 10
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1558765263
- ISBN 13
- 9781558765269
- Publisher
- Markus Wiener Publishers
- This edition first published
- 2011
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