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The Making Of Muslims In Europe: Empire, Immigration, Citizenship

Key information

  • Module code:

    7AAH3039

  • Level:

    7

  • Semester:

      Spring

  • Credit value:

    15

Module description

This module offers a historical perspective on the making of the contemporary Muslim Question in Europe. Opting for a thematic approach it foregrounds and critically explores different aspects of colonial and postcolonial governance and the emergence of contemporary Muslim subjectivities through detailed discussion of diversely and historically configured spatial contexts and relations of power from the late nineteenth to the twenty first century.

Provisional teaching plan

  • Seminar 1: Approaches to the Study of the History of Muslims in Europe
  • Seminar 2: "Religion", Ethnicity and Colonial Forms of Knowledge and Intelligence
  • Seminar 3 Imperial Hubs, Colonial Governance and transnational articulations of Muslimhood
  • Seminar 4: The Wilsonian Moment: Colonial Conscripts, Pan-Islamic Anxieties and Nationalism
  • Seminar 5: ‘The muslimwoman’: between colonial and postcolonial figurations
  • Seminar 6: Making Muslim Space: Mosques and Mosque conflicts, Islamophobia and Belonging
  • Seminar 7: Race, Ethnicity and Religion: Muslims, Racialisation and the changing contexts of Race and Faith
  • Seminar 8: 'The Muslim Makers': States, Churches and the Religious Accommodation of Muslims in Europe
  • Seminar 9: The Making of the 'New Muslim Question': Multiculturalism, Moral Panics and the Politics of Securitisation
  • Seminar 10: Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: Nation States and Muslim Policies

Assessment details

1 x 3,500 word essay (100%)

Teaching pattern

10 x 2-hour weekly seminars

Department

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