Spain Unmoored: Migration, Conversion, and the Politics of Islam (New Anthropologies of Europe) - Hardcover

Rogozen-Soltar, Mikaela H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253024749 ISBN 13: 9780253024749

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Long viewed as Spain’s "most Moorish city," Granada is now home to a growing Muslim population of Moroccan migrants and European converts to Islam. Mikaela H. Rogozen-Soltar examines how various residents of Granada mobilize historical narratives about the city’s Muslim past in order to navigate tensions surrounding contemporary ethnic and religious pluralism. Focusing particular attention on the gendered, racial, and political dimensions of this new multiculturalism, Rogozen-Soltar explores how Muslim-themed tourism and Islamic cultural institutions coexist with anti-Muslim sentiments.

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Review

This timely, well-researched and engaging book examines the ways Muslim residents of Granada see themselves, and are seen by others, in relation to Granada’s Arab past. . . . [B]y illuminating many aspects of the relationships between and within Muslims and non-Muslims in Granada today, Spain Unmoored will be of great interest to students and scholars interested in Spain, Islam and multiculturalism in Europe today.

Source: Anthropos

"Of all the book’s persuasive arguments, what stands out is Rogozen-Soltar’s careful engagement of the heterogeneity of Granada’s Muslim community and her attention to the ways disparity figures into Muslims’ relations with one another as much as their encounters with others. An insightful study of multiculturalism and religion in Europe, relevant to scholars, students, and general readers."

Source: Choice Reviews

From the Author

Mikaela H. Rogozen-Soltar is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada Reno. Her research focuses on the intersections of religion, migration, historical memory, and gender in the Mediterranean.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0253024749
• ISBN 13: 9780253024749
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 282