... Conversos New Christians Expulsion of Muslims Expulsion of Jews A well-known urban legend in late 1500s Seville concerned an unnamed so-and-so, or in Spanish, a fulano. According to the version published by a former prosecutor at the jail in Seville, the breakout took place in broad...

...In a short period of time, Ireland has had to develop policies for a population that has become increasingly diverse. This chapter explores the subtexts of two controversies generated by the growing religious and cultural diversity in Irish institutions: the (Muslim) hijab in Irish schools...

... Gökalp Ziya Kurds Baku Greece Armstrong Harold Macedonia Yugoslavia Atatürk Kemal Mustafa Kemal Tsaldaris Panagis Refugees First World War Ottoman Empire Balkan Muslims Armenia Balkan wars Genocide The twin Balkan Wars of 1912–13 truncated the Ottoman Empire and sparked more than a decade...

...Iraqi women in Denmark is an ethnographic study of ritual performance and place-making among Shi‘a Muslim Iraqi women in Copenhagen. The book explores how Iraqi women construct a sense of belonging to Danish society through ritual performances, and it investigates how this process...

... Trade Centre in 2001 and in the anti-multiculturalism that gained ground in Europe following the murder of Pim Fortuyn in the Netherlands. The chapter draws on Dutch and Irish examples of ethnocentric liberalism, and considers why ethnocentric liberal prejudice towards Muslims was widely condoned...

... urban Europeans had fused into a Catholic, albeit often secularised, pied-noir [black-foot] community of manual and whitecollar workers, artisans and shopkeepers. Racist contempt for the indigenous Muslim majority and Jewish minority was intrinsic to pied-noir identity...

... from wider British society, driven by outside ‘foreign’ influences. For Ash Amin, however, the protests by young British Muslims mark the emergence of a subcultural force refusing to remain hidden. Importantly, they do not mark distance from Britishness, alienation or confusion, but are, rather...

... a list of eighty-three ‘men’ given to the church by its founder, King Roger II. The Rollus Rubeus name-list not only informs us of the church’s record-keeping practices, but it also makes rare reference to the Muslims’ response of flight, fight or conversion towards the end of their long-running revolts...

...The Rushdie affair, 9/11 and 7/7 pushed British Muslims to the forefront of increasingly fraught debate about multiculturalism. Stereotyping images of the submissive veiled woman, the bearded fanatic and the ‘self-segregating’ ghetto have proliferated, reducing a heterogeneous minority group...

...Gordon Allport, the founder of modern prejudice research, observed, “People who reject one out-group will tend to reject other out-groups.” In a country-by-country overview this chapter surveys the mutual views and practices of Europeans and Muslim immigrants and the relevance of Jewish European...