Theodore Gabriel (editor) - Islam and the West Post 9/11

This book offers a chance for greater understanding of the political and religious groups in Islam that have contributed to events pre and post September 11th, and clearer insights into Muslim/Christian relations today. Many books have focused on the events of September 11th but have been primarily journalistic. This book draws together both Muslim and non-Muslim scholars who have been studying Christian/Muslim relations for many years. They assess the impact of 9/11 on Islamophobia and antipathy towards Muslims. Providing insights into various multi-cultural communities whose relations with Islam have been affected, the authors look particularly at regions where there are large minority Muslim communities (US and UK) and large minority non-Muslim communities (Indonesia and Nigeria).

Assessing a number of issues impacting upon the teaching of Islam, this book allows readers to assess the consequences of the event and develop a more critical understanding of its implications.

Edited by
RON GEAVES
THEODORE GABRIEL
YVONNE HADDAD
JANE IDLEMAN SMITH

First published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Islam and the West post 9/11

1.Islam and secularism 2.Islamic renewal 3.East and West 4.Islam Public
opinion 5.Islamic fundamentalism 6.September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
Religious aspects Islam 7.Islam and world politics

I.Geaves, Ron
297.27

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Islam and the West Post 9/11 / edited by Ron Geaves [et al.].

p. cm.

Includes index.
ISBN 0-7546-5002-2 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 0-7546-5005-7 (pbk. :
alk. paper) 1. East and West. 2. Islam20th century. 3. September 11 Terrorist
attacks, 2001Influence. 4. MuslimsUnited States. 5. MuslimsGreat Britain.
I. Geaves, Ron.

CB251.I85 2005
305.697090511dc22

2004007849

ISBN 9780754650027 (hbk)
ISBN 9780754650058 (pbk)

Ron Geaves and Theodore Gabriel

Theodore Gabriel

John J. Shepherd

Kenneth Cragg

Ron Geaves

Marcia Hermansen

Yvonne Haddad

Dilwar Hussein

Christopher Allen

Lamin Sanneh

Muhammad Sirozi

Colin Chapman

Jane Idleman Smith

Christopher Allen is a doctoral student at the University of Birmingham researching for his thesis entitled Deconstructing Islamophobia: a case study of Representations of Muslims in the British Press in the Aftermath of September 11. He is the author, with J. Nielsen of Summary Report on Islamophobia in the EU after 11 September 2001 (Vienna: European Monitoring Center for Racism and Xenophobia, 2002) and Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People by Jack G. Shaheen, The Muslim World Book Review, Vol. 22, no. 4 (Leicester: The Islamic Foundation and the Institute of Islamic Thought, 2002).

Colin Chapman is Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the Near East School of Theology, Beirut, Lebanon. He was formerly Principal of Crowther Hall, Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham and has taught also at Trinity College, Bristol. He is the author of: Christianity on Trial, Lion Publishing (1973); Whose Promised Land?, Lion Publishing (1983); Shadows of the Supernatural: Popular Religion in the West, Lion (1990); Cross and Crescent: Responding to the Challenge of Islam, IVP (1995); Islam and the West: conflict, co-existence or conversion?, Paternoster (1998).

The Rt. Revd. Kenneth Cragg, currently Honorary Assistant Bishop of Oxford since 1982 graduated D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. He was Asst. Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem from 19701984, and has also held the positions of Fellow in Jesus College, University of Oxford and Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge and Reader in Religious Studies at the University of Sussex. Kenneth Cragg was editor of the Muslim World Quarterly from 1952 to 1960. He is the author of numerous works on Islam, including The Call of the Minaret (3rd Edn, 1999); Jesus and the Muslim (2nd Edn, 1999); Readings in the Quran (2nd Edn, 1999); Islam among the Spires (2000), and Muhammad in the Quran (2002).

Theodore Gabriel was born in Kerala State, India, and graduated from the Madras Christian College. He did his postgraduate studies in Sociology and Anthropology at Shivaji University, Maharashtra, and later on did research in Anthropology and Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, graduating M.Litt. in 1982 and Ph.D. in 1986. He has carried out research on Muslims in Kerala, the Lakshadweep Islands, Libya and Malaysia. He is the author of Lakshadweep, History, Religion and Society (Books and Books, 1986); Hindu-Muslim Relations in North Malabar, 14981947 (E Mellen, 1996); Christian-Muslim Relations, a Case Study of Sarawak, East Malaysia (Avebury, 1996); and Hindu and Muslim Inter-religious Relations in Malaysia (E Mellen, 2000). He is also the editor of Islam in the Contemporary World (Vikas, 2000).

Ron Geaves is Professor of Religious Studies at University College Chester, England. He was formerly head of religious studies at University College Chichester and prior to that lectured at the University of Wolverhampton. He has been researching the Muslim community in Britain for the last twelve years and is primarily concerned with adaptation of Islam to non-Muslim European nations. He is the author of Sectarian Influences within Islam in Britain (1995) and Sufis of Britain (2001) in addition to numerous journal articles, contributions to edited books and conference papers on Muslim interaction with the West through migration processes. He has undertaken research in Pakistan, India, and Turkey and visited a number of Muslim nations including Afghanistan and Iran.

Yvonne Haddad is Professor of the History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Georgetown Universitys Centre for Muslim-Christian Understanding. She is the editor of Muslims and the West, Muslims of America and co-editor with John Esposito, of Muslims on the Americanization Path? She is the author of Islam, Gender and Social Change.

Marcia Hermansen is Professor of Theology at Loyola University, Chicago where she teaches courses in Islamic Studies and World Religions. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Arabic and Islamic Studies. In the course of her research and language training she lived for extended periods in Egypt, Jordan, India, Iran and Pakistan and she conducts research in Arabic, Persian and Urdu as well as the major European languages. Her book,