Introduction: Islam as an object of fear and affection / Andrew Shryock -- Western hostility toward Muslims : a history of the present / Tomaž Mastnak -- The Khalil Gibran International Academy : diasporic confrontations with an emerging Islamophobia / Naamah Paley -- The God that failed : the neo-orientalism of today's Muslim commentators / Moustafa Bayoumi -- Gendering Islamophobia and Islamophilia : the case of Shiʻia Muslim women in Lebanon / Lara Deeb -- Bridging traditions : Madrasas and their internal critics / Muhammad Qasim Zaman -- The fantasy and violence of religious imagination : Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in France and North Africa / Paul A. Silverstein -- German converts to Islam and their ambivalent relations with immigrant Muslims / Esra Özyürek -- Muslim ethnic comedy : inversions of Islamophobia / Mucahit Bilici -- Competing for Muslims : new strategies for urban renewal in Detroit / Sally Howell.