Muslim Diaspora

Introduction Part 1: Diaspora and Identity: Violence and Exile Representation 1. Diaspora: History of a Concept 2. Diaspora, Violence and Identity 3. Islam and Consecrated Tortures 4. Islam in Diaspora and Challenges to Multiculturalism: Shar'ia in Canada 5. Exilic Reading of Three Religious Texts Part 2: Home and Exile: Gender and the Politics of Memory 6. Divided Communities of Memory: Diasporas Come Home 7. Our Reflections in their Mirror 8. In the Shadow of Europe: Mediterranean Diasporas and Identity: Yesterday and Today 9. Gender, Nation and Diaspora: Kurdish Women in Feminist Transnational Struggles 10. Discourses of Islam/Secularism and Identity Building Processes among Turkish University Youth Part 3: Contested Terrains: Islam, Gender and Struggles for Continuity and Change 11. The Hijab Controversies in Western Public Schools: Contrasting Conceptions of Ethnicity and of Ethnic Relations 12. Islamophobia and Women of Pakistani Descent in Bradford: The Crisis of Ascribed and Adopted Identities 13. Diasporic Narratives on Virginity 14. Iranian American Elderly in California's Santa Clara Valley: Crafting Selves and Composing Lives 15. Like Parvin, Like Najiba, Like Heba, We Are All Different: Reflections on Voices of Women in Diaspora