Islam and the West
Muslim Youth and the 9/11 Generation
Author(s): Adeline Masquelier & Benjamin F. Soares
Reviewed by: Murad Wilfried Hofmann, Bonn, Germany
Review
The 10 chapters of this book are written by different authors: Hatsuki Aishima, Mayanthi I. Fernando, Noorhaidi Hasan, Simon Hawkins, Magnus Marsden, Adeline Masquelier, Hisyar Ozsoy, Benjamin F. Soares, and Jennifer A. Selby. The book’s chapters deal with “The Rage of Young Martyrs: A Unifying Ideology in the Tunisian Revolution”; “Kurdish Children in Turkey”; “Becoming Taliban: Islam and Youth in Northern Afghanistan”; “Are We All Amr Khaled? Islam and the Facebook Generation in Egypt”; “The Unpredictable Imagination of Muslim French Citizenship”; “Funky Teenagers Love God”: Islam and Youth Activities in Post-Suharto Indonesia”; “Malian Youth between Sufism and Satan”; “The Diamond Ring Now Is the Thing: Young Muslim Torotonian Women Negotiating Mahr on the Web”; and “The Mouthpiece of an Entire Generation; Hip-Hop, Truth, and Islam in Niger”....