Enes Bayraklı and Farid Hafez - Islamophobia in Muslim Majority Societies (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

In the last decade, Islamophobia in Western societies, where Muslims constitute the minority, has been studied extensively. However, Islamophobia is not restricted to the geography of the West, but rather constitutes a global phenomenon. It affects Muslim societies just as much, due to various historical, economic, political, cultural and social reasons.

Islamophobia in Muslim Majority Societies constitutes a first attempt to open a debate about the understudied phenomenon of Islamophobia in Muslim majority societies. An interdisciplinary study, it focuses on socio-political and historical aspects of Islamophobia in Muslim majority societies.

This volume will appeal to students, scholars and general readers who are interested in Racism Studies, Islamophobia Studies, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, Islam and Politics.

Enes Bayrakl is a faculty member in the Department of Political Science at TurkishGerman University, Istanbul, and Director of European Studies at the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research Turkey (SETA).

Farid Hafez is currently Senior Researcher in the Department of Political Science and Sociology, University of Salzburg, Austria, and Senior Researcher at Georgetown University, USA.

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Deina Abdelkader is Associate Professor in the Political Science Department, a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University (2016current), previously a Visiting Scholar at Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University (20142016). She is the author of Social Justice in Islam (IIIT, 2000) and Islamic Activists: The Anti-Enlightenment Democrats (Pluto Press, 2011). She has also authored a number of articles, including Coercion, Peace and the Issue of Jihad in the Digest of Middle East Studies , and a book chapter, Modernity, Islam and Religious Activism, in The New Global Order and the Middle East (Routledge, 2016). She served as the chair of the Religion and International Relations Book Award for the Religion and International Relations Section of the International Studies Association (2015), and she is one of two women on the North American Muslim Jurisprudential Council. She is a co-founder and co-director of the Cohort for the Study of Islam and International Relations (COIRIS). Her areas of foci are democratic transitions in the Muslim world and Islamic Political Activism.

Ali Aslan studied Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware, USA, where he received his PhD in 2012. He is a member of faculty at Ibn Haldun University, and works as a researcher at Society and Media Directorate at SETA Istanbul. His academic interests include Political Theory and Turkish politics.

Enes Bayrakl earned his BA, MA and PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna, and conducted research for his PhD thesis at the University of Nottingham in UK between 2009 and 2010. He took office as a Deputy Director at Yunus Emre Turkish Cultural Centre in London in 20112013. He also served as the founding Director of Yunus Emre Turkish Cultural Centres in Constanta and Bucharest during the period of AugustDecember 2012. He has been a faculty member in the Department of Political Science at TurkishGerman University since 2013. He is also director of European Studies at the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA). Since 2015 he is the co-editor of annual European Islamophobia Report. He also has appeared on Turkish national and international media on numerous occasions to discuss various issues such as anti-Muslim racism and Turkish Foreign Policy. His fields of research include the Transformation of Turkish Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy Analysis and Islamophobia.

Hatem Bazian is Provost, Co-founder and Professor of Islamic Law and Theology at Zaytuna College, the 1st Accredited Muslim Liberal Arts College in the United States. He is a teaching Professor in the Departments of Near Eastern and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Between 2002 and 2007, he also served as an adjunct Professor of law at Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to Berkeley, he served as a visiting Professor in Religious Studies at Saint Marys College of California 20012007 and adviser to the Religion, Politics and Globalization Centre at University of California, Berkeley. He is prolific writer having authored four books (two more are underway), numerous chapters in edited volumes, hundreds of articles and published studies on various subjects. In spring 2009, he founded at Berkeley the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at the Centre for Race and Gender, a research unit dedicated to the systematic study of Othering Islam and Muslims. In spring 2012, he launched the