The other Muslims
Subtitle: moderate and secular
By: edited by Zeyno Baran.
Contributors: Baran, Zeyno.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780230621886; 9780230621879
Subjects: Muslims -- Europe -- Attitudes; Muslims -- United States -- Attitudes; Islam -- Europe; Islam -- United States; Islam and politics; Islamic fundamentalism
Description: This book is a unique collection of alternative Muslim voices, predominantly from Europe, who come from a variety backgrounds - academia, theology, acting, activism - and who make a transformational contribution to the debate of the future of Islam and Muslims in the West. They are a selection, representing the silent majority voices many in the West so desperately want to hear. Contributors are based in a variety of European and American cities, mainly in areas where there are large number of Muslim immigrant populations. Some discuss theological issues, while others talk about their personal struggles of being a Muslim in a non-Muslim setting and hearing conflicting messages about how one is supposed to behave as a "true Muslim." They come from different ethnicities and different social and academic backgrounds.