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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 26 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam by Peter Oborne
    The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam - by Peter Oborne

    £12.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398501058 | ISBN 10: 1398501050

    As the Cold War faded into history, it appeared to have been replaced by a new conflict - between Islam and the West. Or so we are told. After the events of 9/11 and the advent of the 'war on terror', this narrative seemed prophetic. But, as Peter Ob ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam, and the Security State by Rizwaan Sabir
    The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam, and the Security State - by Rizwaan Sabir

    £18.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780745338484 | ISBN 10: 0745338488

    What impact has two decades' worth of policing and counterterrorism had on the state of mind of Muslims in Britain? The Suspect draws on the author's experiences to take the reader on a journey through British counterterrorism practices and the polic ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia by Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
    Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia - by Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780745345413 | ISBN 10: 0745345417

    Islamophobia is everywhere. It is a narrative and history woven so deeply into our everyday lives that we don't even notice it – in our education, how we travel, our healthcare, legal system and at work. Behind the scenes it affects the most vulner ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Muslim Problem: Why We
    The Muslim Problem: Why We're Wrong About Islam and Why It Matters - by Tawseef Khan

    £14.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781786499516 | ISBN 10: 1786499517

    Why are Muslim men portrayed as inherently violent? Does the veil violate women's rights? Is Islam stopping Muslims from integrating?   Across western societies, Muslims are more misunderstood than any other minority. But what does it mean to ... more

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  • Cover image of book It
    It's Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race - by Mariam Khan (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781509886425 | ISBN 10: 1509886427

    When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter?  In 2016, Mariam Khan read that David Cameron had linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the ‘traditional submissiveness’ of Muslim women. Mariam felt pre ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Messenger by Shiv Malik
    The Messenger - by Shiv Malik

    £12.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783350452 | ISBN 10: 1783350458

    Every reporter knows the first rule of journalism: never betray your source. But what if your source turns out to be unworthy of your silence? What if it's your source who betrays you?  The Messenger tells the story of an unlikely friendship betw ... more

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  • Cover image of book American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear by Khaled A. Beydoun
    American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear - by Khaled A. Beydoun

    £17.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780520305533 | ISBN 10: 0520305531

    “I remember the four words that repeatedly scrolled across my mind after the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City. ‘Please don’t be Muslims, please don’t be Muslims.’ The four words I whispered to myself on 9/11 ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims by Nathan Lean
    The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims - by Nathan Lean

    £14.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780745337166 | ISBN 10: 0745337163

    This is a disturbing account of the campaign to promote fear and hatred of Muslims in the United States and Europe, from the 'War on Terror' to Trump's travel ban.   Nathan Lean takes us through a world of conservative bloggers, right-wing tal ... more

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  • Cover image of book Muslim Identity in a Turbulent Age by Mike Hardy, Fiyaz Mughal and Sarah Markiewicz (Editors)
    Muslim Identity in a Turbulent Age - by Mike Hardy, Fiyaz Mughal and Sarah Markiewicz (Editors)

    £14.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781785921520 | ISBN 10: 1785921525

    How can Islam be understood in the context of internal struggles for unity and identity, a rise in anti-Muslim hate crime and continued media portrayals of violence, extremism, warfare and oppression? Looking at Islam as a faith, a whole system with ... more

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  • Cover image of book What is Islamophobia? Racism, Social Movements and the State by Narzanin Massoumi, Tom Mills and David Miller (Editors)
    What is Islamophobia? Racism, Social Movements and the State - by Narzanin Massoumi, Tom Mills and David Miller (Editors)

    £18.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780745399577 | ISBN 10: 0745399576

    As racist undercurrents in many western societies become manifestly entrenched, the prevalence of Islamophobia - and the need to understand what perpetuates it - has never been greater.   Critiquing the arguments found in notionally left accounts ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Battle for British Islam: Reclaiming Muslim Identity from Extremism by Sara Khan with Tony McMahon
    The Battle for British Islam: Reclaiming Muslim Identity from Extremism - by Sara Khan with Tony McMahon

    £14.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780863561597 | ISBN 10: 0863561594

    Across Britain, Muslims are caught up in a battle over the very nature of their faith. And extremists appear to be gaining the upper hand. Sara Khan has spent the past decade campaigning for tolerance and equal rights within Muslim communities, and i ... more

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  • Cover image of book For the Muslims: Islamophobia in France by Edwy Plenel, translated by David Fernbach
    For the Muslims: Islamophobia in France - by Edwy Plenel, translated by David Fernbach

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784784867 | ISBN 10: 1784784869

    A piercing denunciation of Islamophobia in France, in the tradition of Emile Zola.  At the beginning of the twenty-first century, leading intellectuals are claiming “There is a problem with Islam in France,” thus legitimising the discourse of t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Muslims are Coming! by Arun Kundnani
    The Muslims are Coming! - by Arun Kundnani

    £20.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781685587 | ISBN 10: 1781685584

    The new front in the War on Terror is the “homegrown enemy,” domestic terrorists who have become the focus of sprawling counterterrorism structures of policing and surveillance in the United States and across Europe. Domestic surveillance has mushroo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamophobia by Sindre Bangstad
    Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamophobia - by Sindre Bangstad

    £17.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781783600076 | ISBN 10: 1783600071

    In late July 2011, Norway was struck by the worst terror attacks in its history. In a fertilizer-bomb attack on Government Headquarters in Oslo and a one-hour-long shooting spree at the Labour Party Youth Camp at Utøya, seventy-seven people, mostly t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Muslims are Coming!: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror by Arun Kundnani
    The Muslims are Coming!: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror - by Arun Kundnani

    £14.99   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781681596 | ISBN 10: 1781681597

    Death came instantly to Imam Luqman, as four FBI agents fired semiautomatic rifles at him from a few feet away. Another sixty officers surrounded the building on that October morning, the culmination of a two-year undercover investigation that had in ... more

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  • Cover image of book The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age by Martha C. Nussbaum
    The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age - by Martha C. Nussbaum

    £15.95   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780674725911 | ISBN 10: 0674725913

    What impulse prompted some newspapers to attribute the murder of 77 Norwegians to Islamic extremists, until it became evident that a right-wing Norwegian terrorist was the perpetrator? Why did Switzerland, a country of four minarets, vote to ban thos ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Politics of Islamophobia: Race, Power and Fantasy by David Tyrer
    The Politics of Islamophobia: Race, Power and Fantasy - by David Tyrer

    £27.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780745331317 | ISBN 10: 0745331319

    Despite its emblematic place within contemporary racism and its increasingly important position in defining relations between states and ethnicised minorities, Islamophobia remains a contested, frequently unrecognised and largely under-theorised form ... more

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  • Cover image of book Secret Affairs: Britain
    Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam - by Mark Curtis

    £10.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846687648 | ISBN 10: 1846687640

    This updated edition of Secret Affairs covers the momentous events of the past year in the Middle East. It reveals the unreported attempts by Britain to cultivate relations with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt after the fall of Mubarak, the military ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pointing the Finger: Islam and Muslims in the British Media by Julian Petley & Robin Richardson
    Pointing the Finger: Islam and Muslims in the British Media - by Julian Petley & Robin Richardson

    £19.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781851688128 | ISBN 10: 1851688129

    In this important book, several leading media commentators examine the phenomenon of “Islamophobia” and ask how to tackle it.   Charting recent media controversies, from the Archbishop of Canterbury’s comments on Sharia law to the veil “d ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dispatches From the Dark Side by Gareth Peirce
    Dispatches From the Dark Side - by Gareth Peirce

    £9.99   hardback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844676194 | ISBN 10: 1844676196

    An acclaimed human-rights lawyer examines the British government’s complicity in torture.  The Obama administration, under some pressure from its antiwar base, has begun to release carefully selected evidence concerning the widespread use ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Suitable Enemy: Racism, Migration and Islamophobia in Europe by Liz Fekete
    A Suitable Enemy: Racism, Migration and Islamophobia in Europe - by Liz Fekete

    £26.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780745327921 | ISBN 10: 0745327923

    Liz Fekete is a leading authority on issues of racism, Islamophobia and national security legislation. A Suitable Enemy draws on sixteen years of research to present a comprehensive overview of EU immigration, asylum, race and security policies. &nb ... more

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  • Cover image of book Meetings with Remarkable Muslims by Edited by Barnaby Rogerson and Rose Baring
    Meetings with Remarkable Muslims - by Edited by Barnaby Rogerson and Rose Baring

    £12.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780955010507 | ISBN 10: 0955010500

    Meetings with Remarkable Muslims is a collection of travel writing celebrating friendship and the chance encounters that unexpectedly enrich our lives, which shows the diversity of the modern Islamic world and the way in which it continues to inspire ... more

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  • Cover image of book Intolerant Britain? Hate, Citizenship and Difference by Derek McGhee
    Intolerant Britain? Hate, Citizenship and Difference - by Derek McGhee

    £27.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780335216741 | ISBN 10: 0335216749

    This fascinating book uses case studies to explore a number of high-profile and contemporary 'social problems' that exist in British society, including: racism and institutional racism, ethnic & religious community segregation, islamophobia and the i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Islamophobia: Issues, Challenges & Action - A Report ... by Hugh Muir & Laura Smith
    Islamophobia: Issues, Challenges & Action - A Report ... - by Hugh Muir & Laura Smith

    £16.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781858563176 | ISBN 10: 1858563178

    The word Islamophobia was first used in print in 1991 and was defined in the 1997 Runnymede Trust report as 'unfounded hostility towards Islam, and therefore fear or dislike of all or most Muslims'. This follow-up report seven years on considers even ... more

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  • Cover image of book Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender and Pluralism by Omid Safi
    Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender and Pluralism - by Omid Safi

    £30.00   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9781851683161 | ISBN 10: 185168316x

    Developed in response to the events of September 11, this is a provocative collection of articles from fourteen prominent Muslim thinkers. They offer a timely re-assessment of Islam's relationship with the modern world, confronting the views of both ... more

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  • Cover image of book Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World by Edward Said
    Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World - by Edward Said

    £10.99   paperback   (1997) - ISBN 13: 9780099595014 | ISBN 10: 009959501x

    From the Iranian hostage crisis through the Gulf War and the World Trade Centre bombing, the West has been haunted by a spectre called "Islam". As portrayed by the news media - and by a chorus of government, academic and corporate experts - "Islam" i ... more

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