Includes bibliographical references and index.

The borders of Muslim Spain / Alessandro Vanoli -- The converted Muslims of Spain: Morisco cultural resistance and engagement with Islamic knowledge (1502-1610) / Mercedes García-Arenal -- Muslims and Islam in Sicily from the mid-eleventh to the end of the tweIfth century: contemporary perceptions and today's interpretations / Annliese Nef -- The Muslims in southeastern Europe: from Ottoman subjects to European citizens / Nathalie Clayer -- Muslims in western Europe in the late twentieth century: emergence and transformation in 'Muslim' revindications and collective mobilization efforts / Ghaliya Djelloul and Brigitte Maréchal -- Islam in America: the beginnings / Kambiz GhaneaBassiri -- Black Muslims / Herbert Berg -- American Muslim associational life from 1950 to the present / Kathleen Moore -- Islam in Mexico and Central America / Mark Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie Castle -- Muslims in South America: history, presence and visibility of a religious minority in a Christian context / Marco Gallo -- Europe's identity crisis, Islam in Europe, and the crisis of European secularity / Luca Mavelli -- Emergence of a western Muslim identity: factors, agents and discourses / Adis Duderija -- The multicultural idea and western Muslims / Anna Triandafyllidou -- Social and political Islamophobia: stereotyping, surveillance and silencing / Salua Fawzi -- A Muslim modernity: Ismaili engagement with western societies / Karim H. Karim -- Conversion to Islam in modern western Europe and the United States / Patrick D. Bowen -- Muslim political radicalization in the West / Tahir Abbas -- Landscapes of Muslim art and architecture in the West / Eric R. Roose -- Islamic organisations in the West: new welfare actors in the new welfare systems in Europe / Elisa Banfi -- Islam in the arts in the USA / Sylvia Chan-Malik -- European Muslim youth and popular culture: at the crossroads of fun and faith / Miriam Gazzah -- Muslim material culture in the Western world / Johan Fisher -- A religious law for Muslims in the West: the European Council for Fatwa and Research and the evolution of fiqh al-aqalliyyat al-muslima / Uriya Shavit and Iyad Zahalka -- Ethical questions in Western Islamic experience / Francesca Forte -- Gender, feminism, and critique in American Muslim thought / Juliane Hammer -- Development and perspectives of Islamic economics (banking and finance) in the West / Gian Maria Piccinelli -- The production of Western Islamic knowledge / Stefano Allievi -- Islam, Sufism and the postmodern in the religious melting pot / Francesco Alfonso Leccese.