List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements Foreword: The Roots of Modern Islamophobia John L. Esposito Introduction: Contesting Islamophobia in Theory and Practice Peter Morey Section One: Islamophobia, Politics and History 1. American Foreign Policy, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy and Muslims as Enemy Others Nathan Lean 2. Donald Trump at the Intersection of Nativism, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Sentiment: American Roots and Parallels Peter Gottschalk 3. Islamophobia: The Muslim Problem? A Discussion Between Dibyesh Anand, Myriam Francois and Jim Wolfreys Chaired by Peter Morey Section Two: Islamophobia and Representation 4. Islamophobia and the War of Representations: Martin Amis’s ‘The Last Days of Muhammad Atta’ Geoffrey Nash and Nath Aldalala’a 5. ‘A Sly and Stubborn People’: Games of Thrones, Orientalism and Islamophobia Roberta Garrett 6. Islamic Feminism in a Time of Islamophobia: The Muslim Heroines of Leila Aboulela’s Minaret and Elif Shafak’s Forty Rules of Love Amina Yaqin Section Three: Youth Contesting Islamophobia 7. Countering Islamophobia in the Classroom Sarah Soyei 8. Resisting Islamophobia: Muslim Youth Activism in the UK Tania Saeed 9. Young Muslims in Germany and Their Use of New Media to Counter Islamophobia Asmaa Soliman Section Four: Art Beyond Islamophobia 10. Adjusting the ‘Islamic’ Focus: Exhibitions of Contemporary Pakistani Art in Britain in the Post-9/11 Decade Madeline Clements 11. Super Moozlim Battles Islamophobia Leila Tarakji 12. Homegrown: The Story of a Controversy Nadia Latif interviewed by Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin

Both a primer for those new to the topic and a source of sophisticated conceptual advances for those already immersed, the range of topics covered by authors at the top of their game will provide insights for all. From literary fiction to Donald Trump, from superhero comics to real life military cultures, and from classroom toolkits to fantasy in the Game of Thrones, this collection informs and inspires challenges to the poisonous pervasiveness of contemporary Islamophobia.