Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 Kulturkampf
3 Citizenship
4 Veil
5 Secularism
6 Terrorism
7 Conclusion
Bibliography
Peter O’Brien is Professor of Political Science at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He is the author of European Perceptions of Islam and America from Saladin to George W. Bush: Europe’s Fragile Ego Uncovered, and Beyond the Swastika. He has been a Social Science Research Council Fellow at the Free University in Berlin, and Fulbright Visiting Professor at Bogaziçi University in Istanbul and at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
“Reflecting a stunningly broad range of erudition resulting from
decades of research, The Muslim Question in Europe provides an
antidote for those grappling to understand the myriad
migration-related challenges faced by Europeans. O’Brien contends
that the complexities are best explicated by viewing the issues
through a Kulturkampf lens pitting liberal, nationalist, and
post-modernist insights against or complementary to one another. Of
special interest is the timely chapter on terrorism and security.
Here, too, he discerns a pattern of normative Kulturkampf and
policy messiness. He views this outcome as very European. Islam,
after all, is of Europe too.”—Mark J. Miller, University of
Delaware and co-author of The Age of Migration
“Peter O’Brien discusses the huge amount of research on
the major controversies surrounding Islam and Muslims in Europe
when it comes to secularism, women’s rights, citizenship, and
terrorism. He shows how and why these controversies reveal the
inherent contradictions and dilemmas of European identities as much
as they shed light on the so called ‘exceptionalism’ of Islam. The
Muslim Question in Europe will be very relevant to
students and scholars of religion, comparative politics, and
immigration.”— Jocelyne Cesari, author of The Awakening
of Muslim Democracy
“A thought-provoking and fresh look at the history of ideas that
have shaped Europeans’ encounter with the historic settlement of
Muslim minorities in Western Europe. O’Brien is an able guide to
the best research in philosophy and the social sciences as he
explores the nuances of western cultural contexts. The Muslim
Question in Europe combines rich normative and empirical analyses
that shed light on unresolved conflicts in European
nation-states.”—Jonathan Laurence, author of The
Emancipation of Europe’s Muslims and Integrating Islam
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