Pt. 1. The American experience. Spreading the word: communicating Islam in America / Abdul Hamid Lotfi ; The politics of transfiguration: constitutive aspects of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 / Kathleen Moore ; The American Muslim paradox / Agha Saeed ; The greatest migration? / Robert M. Dannin ; Islamic party in North America: a quiet storm of political activism / Khalid Fattah Griggs ; The complexity of belonging: Sunni Muslim immigrants in Chicago / Garbi Schmidt ; Being Arab and becoming Americanized: forms of mediated assimilation in metropolitan Detroit / Gary David and Kenneth K. Ayouby -- Pt. 2. The European experience. Invisible Muslims: the Sahelians in France / Sylviane A. Diouf ; The northern way: Muslim communities in Norway / Saphinaz-Amal Naguib ; Turks in Germany: Muslim identity "between" states / James Helicke -- Pt. 3. The experience in areas of European settlement. Muslims in Australia: the building of a community / Anthony H. Johns and Abdullah Saeed ; Muslim women as citizens in Australia: Perth as a case study / Samina Yasmeen ; Muslims in New Zealand / William Shepard ; Muslims in South Africa: a very visible minority / Tamara Sonn ; Muslims in the Caribbean: ethnic sojourners and citizens / John O. Voll.