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HUMAN ARCHITECTURE
Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge


Volume VIII • Issue 2 • Fall 2010

OKCIR: The Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia, Mysticism, and Science (Utopystics)

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ISLAM: FROM PHOBIA TO UNDERSTANDING

Proceedings of the International Conference on "Debating Islamophobia"
Co-organized by Casa Árabe-IEAM (www.casaarabe.es) and
the Program of Comparative Ethnic Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at U.C. Berkeley
Madrid, Spain, May 28–29, 2009
—In Celebration of Nasr Abu Zayd (1943–2010)

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Issue Co-Editors:
Ramón Grosfoguel, University of California, Berkeley / Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, and
Gema Martín-Muñoz, Casa Árabe-IEAM and Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain

Journal Editor:
Mohammad H. Tamdgidi
UMass Boston

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vii—Editor’s Note: Exploring Islamophobia in the Spirit of the Late Nasr Abu-Zayd
Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, University of Massachusetts Boston

1—Introduction: Debating Islamophobia
Issue Co-Editors: Ramón Grosfoguel and Gema Martín-Muñoz

5—Religions: From Phobia to Understanding
Nasr Abu-Zayd, The University of Humanistics, Utrecht, The Netherlands

21—Unconscious Islamophobia
Gema Martín-Muñoz, Casa Árabe-IEAM and Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain

29—Epistemic Islamophobia and Colonial Social Sciences
Ramón Grosfoguel, University of California, Berkeley • Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris

39—Islamophobia: a French Specificity in Europe?
Vincent Geisser, Research Institute on the Arabic and Muslim World, and
Center for Information Studies on the International Immigrations, Paris

47—Terror and the Politics of Containment: Analysing the Discourse of
the ‘War on Terror’ and its Workings of Power

Farish A. Noor, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) and
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

67—Fundamentally Danish? The Muhammad Cartoon Crisis as Transitional Drama
Heiko Henkel, Copenhagen University, Denmark

83—Historiographic Narratives: The Discourse Strategies for Constructing
Expellable “Moorish” Subjects

José María Perceval, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

95—Islamophobia and Sexism: Muslim Women in the Western Mass Media
Laura Navarro, University Paris 8, France

115—Discrepancies Around the Use of the Term “Islamophobia”
Javier Rosón Lorente, Casa Árabe-IEAM, Spain

129—The Homelessness of Muslimness: The Muslim Umma as a Diaspora
S. Sayyid, University of Leeds, UK

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