The Muslim problem : from the British Empire to Islamophobia /
Ismail Adam Patel
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022
- (xiii, 276 p.)
- Mapping global racisms .
Bibliogr. p. 225-269
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.