Amplifying Islam in the European Soundscape - (Islam of the Global West) by Pooyan Tamimi Arab (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Public manifestations of Islam remain fiercely contested across the Global West. Studies to date have focused on the visual presence of Islam - the construction of mosques or the veiling of Muslim women. <i>Amplifying Islam in the European Soundscape </i>is the first book to add a sonic dimension to analyses of the politics of Islamic aesthetics in Europe. <br/> <br/> Sound does not respect public/private boundaries, and people experience sound viscerally. As such, the public amplification of the azan, the call to prayer, offers a unique opportunity to understand what is at stake in debates over religious toleration and secularism. The Netherlands were among the first European countries to allow the amplification of the azan in the 1980s, and Pooyan Tamimi Arab explores this as a case study embedded in a broader history of Dutch religious pluralism.<br/> <br/> The book<i> </i>offers a pointed critique of social theories that regard secularism as all-encompassing. While cultural forms of secularism exclude Muslim rights to public worship, <i>Amplifying Islam in the European Soundscape</i> argues that political and constitutional secularism also enables Muslim demands for amplifying calls to prayer. It traces how these exclusions and inclusions are effected through proposals for mosques, media debates, law and policy, but also in negotiations on the ground between residents, municipalities and mosques.<br/><br/>This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the Religious Matters in an Entangled World program, Utrecht University.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>The openness with which Tamimi Arab presents his research, methodology and data is refreshing. This book presents extensive historical backgrounds, such as an account of Catholic processions in the nineteenth century and a vivid account of Dutch migration history. It also extensively documents the constitutional evolvement of sonic religious expression and reflects on an alternative, visual azan that uses light instead of sound. As such, <i>Amplifying Islam in the European Soundscape</i> is not merely the empirical study of a phenomenon that is relatively new to the Netherlands, but it is also a rich document that contributes to the study of secularism and religious pluralism in the Netherlands.<br/>Reading Religion<br><br>This is a book with a great sense of urgency. Written in a lucid, personal style, and drawing on insights from cultural anthropology, political philosophy, material religion studies, and art history, Pooyan Tamimi Arab offers a highly original, truly interdisciplinary contribution to our understanding of European secularism and religious aesthetics. This book will be essential reading for everybody interested in how Islam gradually but surely becomes an established religion in Europe.<br><br>This is one of the most important books on Islam in Europe in the recent years. The author convincingly shows that amplifying Islam have become part of the 'politics of home', in which the native Dutch - defining themselves as secular- barely support equal treatment of religions in the public space. The author -always subtle, never judgmental- shows the deep ambivalences of today's secular Europe; the embarrassment of non-believers.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Pooyan Tamimi</b> <b>Arab </b>is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
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