Haunted presents : Europeans, Muslim immigrants and the onus of European-Jewish histories / Amikam Nachmani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nachmani, Amikam, author.

Series:

Manchester Political Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslims--Europe.

Muslims.

Jews--Europe.

Jews.

Cultural pluralism--Europe.

Cultural pluralism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 329 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Relations between Europe and its Muslim minorities constitute an extensive focus for discussion both within and beyond the Continent. This book reports on the years mainly between 2005 and 2015 and focuses on the exploitation of recent European history when describing relations and the prospects for the nominally 'Christian' majority and Muslim minority. The discourse often references the Jews of Europe as a guiding precedent. The manifold references to the annals of the Jews during the 1930s, the Second World War and the Holocaust, used by both the Muslim minorities and the European 'white' (sic) majority presents an astonishing and instructive perspective. When researching Europe and its Muslim minorities, one is astonished by the alleged discrimination that the topic produces, in particular the expressions embodied in Islamophobia, Europhobia and anti-Semitism. The book focuses on the exemplary European realities surrounding the 'triangular' interactions and relations between the Europeans, Muslims and Jews. Pork soup, also known as 'identity soup', has been used as a protest in France and Belgium against multicultural life in Europe and against the Muslim migrants who allegedly enjoyed government benefits. If the majority on all sides of the triangle were to unite and marginalize the extreme points of the triangle, not by force but by goodwill, reason and patience, then in time the triangle would slowly but surely resolve itself into a circle. The Jews, Christians, Muslims and non-believers of Europe have before them a challenge.

Contents:

6 A triangle in crisis: violence, aggression, anti-Israel and anti-Semitic phenomena7 Conclusion: brighter European-Muslim-Jewish futures?; Bibliography; Index.

Haunted presents; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Quotations; 1 Hectic times: Europe and its Muslim minorities; 2 European realities: aspects of the 'triangular' relations between Europeans, Muslims and Jews; 3 Haunted presents: the Holocaust as a yardstick; 4 In the same boat: European opposition, Muslim migrants, impact on Jews; 5 East meets the West: Fiqh al-Aqalliyat (Muslim jurisprudence on minorities); Dina de-Malchuta Dina (the law of the kingdom is the law); Dar al-Islam (abode of Islam); Dar al-Harb (abode of war).

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Mar 2026).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781526128560

152612856X

9781526117151

1526117150

OCLC:

986030515