List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Acronyms
Acknowledgements
Part I: Introduction: What is Islamophobia?
1. Islamophobia, Social Movements and the State: For a
Movement-centred Approach - Narzanin Massoumi, David Miller and Tom
Mills
Part II: Islamophobia, Counter-terrorism and the State
2. Islamophobia as Ideology of U.S. Empire - Arun Kundnani
3. Islamophobia and Empire: An Intermestic Approach to the Study of
Anti-Muslim Racism - Deepa Kumar
4. The U.K. Counter-terrorism Matrix: Structural Racism and the
Case of Mahdi Hashi - Asim Qureshi
5. The ‘War on Terror’ and the Attack on Muslim Civil Society -
Shenaz Bunglawala
Part III: Social Movements From Above
6. Mainstreaming Anti-Muslim Prejudice: The Rise of the
Islamophobia Industry in American Electoral Politics - Nathan C.
Lean
7. Terror Incognito: Black Flags, Plastic Swords and Other Weapons
of Mass Disruption in Australia - Scott Poynting and Linda
Briskman
8. Islamophobia, Counter-extremism and the Counterjihad Movement -
Hilary Aked
9. The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli
Settlements - Sarah Marusek
10. The Neoconservative Movement: Think Tanks as Elite Elements of
Social Movements from Above - Tom Griffin, David Miller and Tom
Mills
11. Liberal and Left Movements and the Rise of Islamophobia -
Narzanin Massoumi, Tom Mills and David Miller
Part IV: Fighting Back
12. Fighting Back: Challenging the State and Social Movements from
Above - Narzanin Massoumi, Tom Mills and David Miller
Notes on Contributors
Index
Narzanin Massoumi is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
(2016-19) at the University of Bath. She is the author of Muslim
Women, Social Movements and the 'War on Terror' (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2016) and the co-editor of What is Islamophobia? (Pluto,
2017).
Tom Mills is Lecturer in Sociology at Aston University. He is the
author of The BBC: The Myth of a Public Service (Verso, 2016) and
the co-editor of What is Islamophobia? (Pluto, 2017).
David Miller is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social
and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath. He is the co-editor
of What is Islamophobia? (Pluto, 2017) and the author of Thinker,
Faker, Spinner, Spy (Pluto, 2007) and A Century of Spin (Pluto,
2007).
'A masterful volume, intellectually provocative ... it challenges
the basic assumptions of the Islamophobia scholarship field ... A
must read for any person concerned with the current period and the
rising tide of bigotry and racism'
*Hatem Bazian, founder of the Islamophobia Research and
Documentation Project, University of California at Berkeley*
'A remarkably courageous and painstakingly evidence-based book…
This unique and much needed framework for understanding
Islamophobia is a must read for social scientists, policy makers
and human rights activists alike!'
*Salma Yaqoob, Political Activist and Head of the Birmingham Stop
the War Coalition*
'The best study I have ever seen of this scourge that now plagues
the world'
*Joel Kovel, author of Overcoming Zionism (2007) and The Lost
Traveller's Dream (2017)*
'This important, thoughtful and disturbing book could not be more
timely. The authors compel us to examine our institutions, face
unwelcome facts, and revise some of our culturally entrenched
positions and assumptions'
*Karen Armstrong, author of A History of God*
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