The Muslim Question in Europe : Political Controversies and Public Philosophies Paperback / softback
by Peter O'Brien
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An estimated twenty million Muslims now reside in Europe, mostly as a result of large-scale postwar immigration.
In The Muslim Question in Europe, Peter O'Brien challenges the popular notion that the hostilities concerning immigration-which continues to provoke debates about citizenship, headscarves, secularism, and terrorism-are a clash between "Islam and the West." Rather, he explains, the vehement controversies surrounding European Muslims are better understood as persistent, unresolved intra-European tensions. O'Brien contends that the best way to understand the politics of state accommodation of European Muslims is through the lens of three competing political ideologies: liberalism, nationalism, and postmodernism.
These three broadly understood philosophical traditions represent the most influential normative forces in the politics of immigration in Europe today.
He concludes that Muslim Europeans do not represent a monolithic anti-Western bloc within Europe.
Although they vehemently disagree among themselves, it is along the same basic liberal, nationalist, and postmodern contours as non-Muslim Europeans.
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- Pages:298 pages
- Publisher:Temple University Press,U.S.
- Publication Date:29/02/2016
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- ISBN:9781439912775
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:298 pages
- Publisher:Temple University Press,U.S.
- Publication Date:29/02/2016
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- ISBN:9781439912775