The Muslim question in Europe : political controversies and public philosophies /
An estimated twenty million Muslims now reside in Europe, mostly as a result of large-scale postwar immigration. In The Muslim Question in Europe, Peter O'Brien challenges the popular notion that the hostilities concerning immigration, which continues to provoke debates about citizenship, heads...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
[2016]
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| Summary: | An estimated twenty million Muslims now reside in Europe, mostly as a result of large-scale postwar immigration. In The Muslim Question in Europe, Peter O'Brien challenges the popular notion that the hostilities concerning immigration, which continues to provoke debates about citizenship, headscarves, secularism and terrorism, are a clash between Islam and the West. Rather, he explains, the vehement controversies surrounding European Muslims are better understood as persistent, unresolved intra-European tensions. O'Brien contends that the best way to understand the politics of state accommodation of European Muslims is through the lens of three competing political ideologies, liberalism, nationalism and postmodernism. These three broadly understood philosophical traditions represent the most influential normative forces in the politics of immigration in Europe today. He concludes that Muslim Europeans do not represent a monolithic anti-Western bloc within Europe. Although they vehemently disagree among themselves, it is along the same basic liberal, nationalist and postmodern contours as non-Muslim Europeans. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 307 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-295) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781439912768 1439912769 9781439912775 1439912777 |