title: Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam: Politics, Culture, and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization (Transnational Perspectives on Space and Place)
author:  Manuel Castells 
description: An excellent collection of articles that highlight the new and unexpected emergent relationships between 'Europe' and 'Islam' as concepts, discourses, practices, and politics. (Seteney Shami, Program on the Middle East and North Africa, Social Science Research Council)<br /><br />Historically, Europe formed its identity by its hostility to Islam, yet today millions of Europeans are also Muslims. This transformation challenges us to rethink what it means to be European. The essays collected here are an important contribution to this task. (Timothy Mitchell, Kevorkian Center for Middle East Studies, New York University)<br /><br />. . . an important contribution to an emerging growing literature. (<i>American Journal of Islamic Social Studies</i>)<br /><br />...a well-argued set of essays which reviews the place of Islam in Europe and America... (<i>Journal Of Multilingual & Multicultural Development</i>)<br /><br />This book succeeds in "crossing the border" that separates Western Europe and the Muslim world. It reminds us that these two parts of the world do not just face each other; they also share in an important way the social life and political processes of each other's type of society. (Alain Touraine, Ecole des Hautes, Etudes de Sciences Sociales)
zlib_text: Making Cairo Medieval 
  
  TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES 
  ON SPACE AND PLACE 
  Nezar AISayyad. Series Editor 
  Transnational Perspectives on Space and Place is a publication of the Series of Lexington 
  books based on conferences, ~ymposia, and projects organized by the Center for 
  Middle Eastern Studies and the International Association for the Study of Traditional 
  Environments at the University of California at Berkeley as part of their transna-
  tional initiative. Unlike comparative research. which focuses on similarities and 
  differences between regions, transnational research examines the socio-spatial 
  connections through which global cartographies are constituted and transformed. 
  It is also an epistemological technique that pays attention to how concepts and 
  discourses are produced within specific geopolitical regions and histories. and 
  that allows knowledge of one region to be used to interrogate another. 
  Muslim Europe or Euro· Islam: Politics, Culture, and Citizenship in the Age ef