Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-306) and index.
Introduction--Islamophobia : the word and the world -- Islam, culture and anarchy : faith, doubt, and liberalism in Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and John Updike -- From multiculturalism to Islamophobia : identity politics and individualism in Hanif Kureishi and Monica Ali -- Muslim misery memoirs : the truth claims of exotic suffering in Azar Nafisi and Khaled Hosseini -- Migrant cartographies : Islamophobia and the politics of the city space in Amy Waldman and H.M. Naqvi -- States of statelessness : Islamophobia and border spaces in the post-9/11 thrillers of John Le Carré, Dan Fesperman, and Richard Flanagan -- Islamophobia and the global novel : "worlding" history in Nadeem Aslam and Kamila Shamsie -- Marketing the Muslim : globalization and the postsecular in Mohsin Hamid and Leila Aboulela -- Conclusion--toward a critical Muslim literary studies