Islam in the West

Abe W. Ata is of a Palestinian Lebanese Australian background, born in Bethlehem. He graduated in social psychology at the American University of Beirut, and was nominated as a delegate to the United Nations' World Youth Assembly in New York. He gained his doctorate at the University of Melbourne in 1980 and has since been teaching and researching at several Australian, American, Jordanian, West Bank, and Danish universities, currently at Deakin University, and Adjunct Professor at Swinburne University; Jan A. Ali is a Religious Sociologist specialising in Islam. He is a Senior Lecturer in Islam and Modernity in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at the University of Western Sydney.

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Jihadism
Jan A. Ali and Drew Cottle

8. Engaging with Islam, Engaging with Society: The Participation of Muslims in Dutch Society
Thijl Sunier

III. Faith and Identity

9. 'Muslims in the Modern Sense': Kabyles Negotiating Religious Identity in the Czech Republic
Tereza Hyánková

10. Faith, Identity, and Ideology: Experiences of Australian Male Converts to Islam
Paul Mitchell and Halim Rane

11. Muslim Communities in a Catholic Country: The Case of Italy
Enzo Pace and Khalid Rhazzali

Bibliography
Index
About the Editors and Contributors