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The French government's 2004 decision to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools puzzled many observers. This book argues that the focus on headscarves came from a century-old sensitivity to the public presence of religion in schools, feared links between public expressions of Islamic identity and radical Islam.

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Presents an account of a Muslim society in highland Sumatra, Indonesia. This book describes how men and women debate among themselves ideas of what Islam is and should be - as it pertains to all areas of their lives, from work to worship. It analyzes the tension between the local and universal in everyday life.

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On British Islam examines the history and everyday workings of Islamic institutions in Britain, with a focus on sharia councils. These councils concern themselves with religious matters, especially divorce. They have a higher profile in Britain than in other Western nations. Why Taking a historical and ethnographic look at British Islam, John Bow

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Why fears about Muslim integration into Western societypropagated opportunistically by some on the rightmisread history and misunderstand multiculturalism.

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An anthropological examination of how Muslims respond to the conditions of life in France. It examines how French Muslims fashion various Islamic institutions and develop different ways of reasoning and teaching. It looks at some of the quite distinct ways in which mosques have connected with broader social and political forces.