Against a backdrop of continually growing global Islamophobia, this handbook provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of the key issues, theories, debates, and developments in gendered Islamophobia, unpacking how Western, Orientalist constructions of Muslim men and women affect the lived experiences of Muslim men and women;

Foreword; Jasmin Zine.- Introduction; Amina Easat-Daas and Irene Zempi.- Islamophobia as Intersectional Phenomenon; Saima N. Ansari and Tina G. Patel.- Political, Colonial, and Libidinal Economies of Gendered Islamophobia; Ben Whitham.- Gendered Islamophobic Securitisation and the Headscarf Conundrum in France and the Netherlands; Flavie Curinier, Richard McNeil-Willson, Seran de Leede and Tahir Abbas.- On White Male Desires and Projections: Islamophobia and Patriarchy; Farid Hafez.- From Silent Majority to Safeguarding: mapping the representation of Muslim women in UK counterterrorism policies; Naaz Rashid.- Muslim women, English language and Countering Violent Extremism; Madiha Neelam and Kamran Khan.- Beyond the bakwaas: securitising Muslim male identities; Isobel Ingham-Barrow.- From Terrorists to Paedophiles: Investigating the Experience and Encounter of Islamophobia on Muslim Men in Contemporary Britain; Chris Allen.- British Muslim men, stigma and clothing choices; Fatima Rajina.- Removal of the Niqab in Court: A structural barrier to equality; Jeremy Robson.- #HandsOffMyHijab: Muslim women writers challenge contemporary Islamophobia; Ramisha Rafique and Jenni Ramone.- Islamophobic hate crime towards non-Muslim Men; Imran Awan and Irene Zempi.- Spatialising Islamophobia: responding to and resisting anti-Muslim racism in Scotland; Robin Finlay and Peter Hopkins.- In the name of Muslim women’s right to learn? A Study of Moroccan migrant mothers in the Belgian ‘Citizenisation’ context; Amal Miri.- The left, liberalism and Gendered Islamophobia in France and Belgium; Amina Easat-Daas.- ‘Men come and go, but God is and remains’: Finnish Female Converts to Islam and Agency; Linda Hyökki.- How can you be Muslim? You look like you are Greek! Investigating Muslim Women’s Experiences of Islamophobia in Greece; Christina Verousi.- ‘I don’t dress like you’: Islamophobia between the (in)visible violence again Muslim Women in Italy, and Resilience; Rafaella Monia Callia and Roberto Flauto.- Hindutva and the Muslim problem: An exploration of gendered Islamophobia in India; Tania Saeed.- Hindutva, Muslim women and Islamophobic governance in India; Nitasha Kaul and Annapurna Menon.- Expect it and accept it: Coping with Islamophobia in the Canadian medical field; Katherine Bullock.- An Unseen Methodological Crisis (Forced) Adaptions to Online Qualitative Methodological Encounters, Disruptions and Challenges during the COVID-19 Pandemic for Researching Marginalised Individuals on Gendered Islamophobia in Canada; Arshia U. Zaidi.- Two different countries, a common phenomenon: Comparative Study of Islamophobia in Turkey and Germany; Turgay Yerlikaya and Yasemin Güney.- Why being a woman matters in countering Islamophobia in Australia; Susan Carland.- Dangerous Muslim wombs and the fear of replacement: Experiences from Australia and Aotearoa – New Zealand; Shakira Hussain, Liz Allen and Scott Poynting.

Drawing on theories from philosophy, sociology, gender studies, psychology and criminology, sections examine the interdisciplinary theoretical dimensions of gendered Islamophobia; illustrate the dynamics of gendered Islamophobia through the use of case examples in the UK, Europe, North America, Australasia, the Middle East, and South Asia.

This handbook will be valuable reading for scholars, researchers, and policymakers around the globe in Gender Studies, Sociology, Criminology, Politics, and Law, who focus on the intersections of gender and Islamopobia, and the impact on Muslim men and women respectively.

Amina Easat-Daas is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at De Montfort University, UK. Recent publications include her monograph Muslim Women’s Political Participation in France and Belgium (2020, Palgrave Macmillan) and the co-edited collection Countering Islamophobia in Europe (2019, Palgrave Macmillan). Her wider research interests include the study of Islam and Muslimness in France and Belgium, gendered Islamophobia and the use of the arts in countering Islamophobia in Europe.

Irene Zempi is Associate Professor of Criminology at Nottingham Trent University, UK. She has published widely on issues of hate crime, researcher positionality and ethnography. She is the co-editor of the books Hate Crime in Football (2023, with Imran Awan) Misogyny as Hate Crime (2021, with Jo Smith) and Routledge International Handbook of Islamophobia (2019, with Imran Awan). Irene is also the co-author of the books Student Textbook of Islamophobia (2019, with Imran Awan), Islamophobia: Lived Experiences of Online and Offline Victimisation (2016, with Imran Awan) and Islamophobia, Victimisation and the Veil (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, with Neil Chakraborti). Irene is Chair of the British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network, Lead of the NTU Hate Crime Research Group and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.