The Daily Lives of Muslims : Islam and Public Confrontation in Contemporary Europe Hardback

by Nilufer Gole

From 9/11 to the Paris attacks, our headlines are dominated by images of violence and extremism.

Now, as the Western world struggles to cope with the refugee crisis, there is a growing obsession with the issue of Muslim integration.

Those Muslims who fail to assimilate are branded the `enemy within', with their communities said to provide a fertile breeding ground for jihadists.

Such narratives, though, fail to take into account the actual lives of most Muslims living in the West, fixating instead on a minority of violent extremists. In The Daily Lives of Muslims, Nilufer Goele provides an urgently needed corrective to this distorted image of Islam.

Engaging with Muslim communities in twenty-one cities across Europe where controversies over integration have arisen - from the banning of the veil in France to debates surrounding sharia law in the UK - the book brings the voices of this neglected majority into the debate.

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