@article{1443330,
      recid = {1443330},
      author = {Patel, Ismail Adam,},
      title = {The Muslim problem : from the British Empire to  Islamophobia /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {This book explains the increasing incidences and  normalisation of Islamophobia, by analysing the role of  signifiers of free speech, censorship, and fatwa during the  Satanic Verses affair in problematising the figure of the  Muslim. Ismail Patel develops the notion of Islamophobia  not as a continuation of the antagonistic relation from the  British Empire but as a postcolonial reformulation of the  figure of the Muslim. The book views Islamophobia studies  as a paradigm, engages in the debate of Islamophobia as a  global phenomenon, investigates the contestation over its  definition and challenges the view of Islamophobia as a  reserve of the far-right. It assesses the debate around the  concept of identity and shows how the colonised figure of  the Muslim provided significance in constructing British  imperial identity. Providing a decolonial,  counter-Islamophobia approach that challenges Britishness  exclusionary white symbolic content, the book calls for a  liberating idea of Britishness that promotes a post-racist  rather than a post-race society. Theoretically rich in  analysis, this book will contribute to discussions of  identity formation, Britishness, Islamophobia and  counter-Islamophobia. It will be of use to students and  researchers across history, politics, sociology, cultural  studies, literary studies, and anthropology. Ismail Adam  Patel is a visiting Research Fellow at University of Leeds  and the chair of UK based NGO Friends of Al-Aqsa.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1443330},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75842-4},
}