Moha Ennaji is Professor at the University of Fès, Morocco. He is a specialist of language, migration, and gender studies, with many publications in culture, minority, and ethnicity issues; for example, Ennaji's most book recent book is titled Muslim Moroccan Migrants in Europe. He is co-founder and president of the International Institute for Languages and Cultures, Fès, Morocco.

Introduction: Contextualizing Muslim Diaspora in Europe and North America; Moha Ennaji
Part I HISTORICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL BACKGROUND
1. A Season of Migration to the West: The Arab-Muslim Diaspora in the United States: Political Ethos and Praxis; Younes Abouyoub
2. 'American Citizens of Arabic-speaking Stock': The Institute of Arab American Affairs and Questions of Identity in the Debate over Palestine; Denise Laszewski Jenison
3. The Master, the Pir and their Followers in Diaspora: Gülen's Followers (Hizmet) and the Maktab Tariqat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi; Sherifa Zuhur
4. Muslim Diaspora in Europe and Cultural Diversity; Moha Ennaji
Part II MUSLIM DIASPORA, MULTICULTURALISM, AND IDENTITY ISSUES
5. Muslim migrants and the push for religious multiculturalism in Canada; Haideh Moghissi
6. 'I'm not different - because everybody is different.': Notions of belonging amongst Muslims in the Netherlands; Lenie Brouwer
7. Telling and Retelling Karbal?': The Transnational Effect of the Use of Shi'a Narratives on Political and Social Participation amongst Shi'as in the United States; Cyrus Ali Contractor
8. The Immigrant Food and 'Trans-Memory' of Home in Diana Abu-Naber's The Language of Baklava and Elif Shafak's Honor; Eda Dedebas Dundar
Part III REFLECTIONS ON MUSLIM DIASPORIC WOMEN
9. Women and Islam in the Western media; Karen Vintges
10. Muslim North African Women and Migration in the Context of Globalization; Fatima Sadiqi
11. Multiculturalism in Muslim America?: The Case of Health Disparities and Discrimination in 'Arab Detroit,' Michigan; Marcia C. Inhorn
12. Voicing Resistance, Sharing Struggle: Muslim Women facing Canadian Gender, Race and Ethnic Oppression; Naima Bendriss
Part IV ASPECTS OF INTEGRATION, DISCRIMINATION AND ISLAMOPHOBIA
13. Salafism and Democracy - A German Debate; Susanne Schröter
14. Muslims in the Netherlands: a threatening community or a community under threat?; Jan Jaap de Ruiter
15. Polygyny and the Performance of Gendered Power Among African American Muslims; Debra Majeed
16. Muslim-Americans: Between the Challenge of Policing and Freedom of Expression; Elizabeth Bishop
Notes on Contributors
Index

This book provides insights into some of the social topics related to the homogenization and stereotyping of Muslims. It explores the experiences of Muslims in Western societies, with a particular focus not only on gender, home and belonging, multiculturalism, and ethnicity.