Human Rights, Islam and the Failure of Cosmopolitanism is a theoretically challenging re-evaluation of cosmopolitan arguments through a rigorous discussion of rights-making claims by Europe's Muslims to the European Court of Human Rights. It combines sociological and legal case analysis.

June Edmunds is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sussex, UK and an affiliated Senior Research Fellow at the Centre of Development Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK.

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Chapter 2 HUMAN RIGHTS AS A 'COSMOPOLITAN MOMENT' cHAPTER 3 POST-NATIONAL THEORY,

CITIZENSHIP AND HUMAN RIGHTS cHAPTER 4 THE RISE OF HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM CHAPTER 5 LITIGATING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

CHAPTER 6 EUROPEAN IMMIGRATION, ASYLUM AND THE MYTH OF COSMOPOLITANISM CHAPTER 7 FROM COSMOPOLITANISM TO

SECURITIZATION CHAPTER 8 CONCLUSION