Being Young and Muslim

• The essays in this volume look at the strategies Muslim youths deploy to realize their interests and aspirations

Readership: Students and scholars of Sociology, Youth Culture, and the Middle East.

Linda Herrera, Senior Lecturer, International Development Studies, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, and Asef Bayat, Professor of Sociology and Middle East Studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands

Linda Herrera, Senior Lecturer in International Development Studies, is Convenor of the Children and Youth Studies M.A. specialization at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam. Asef Bayat, Professor of Sociology and Middle East Studies, holds the chair of Society and Culture of the Middle East and Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is the author of Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn (2007) and Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East (2010).

""This is an excellent collection of essays on youth in a number of Muslim majority (and minority) societies in the context of globalization and modernity. A particular strength of this volume is its ability to highlight the multiple and contested roles of religion and personal faith in the fashioning of contemporary youthful Muslim identities. Such insights often challenge secular Western master narratives of modernity and suggest credible reconceptualizations of what it means to be young and modern in a broad swath of the world today."" - Asma Afsaruddin, Professor of Islamic Studies, Indiana University

Acknowledgements
1.:
Introduction: Being Young and Muslim in Neoliberal Times
Asef Bayat and Linda Herrera
Politics of Dissent
2.:
Muslim Youth and the Claim of Youthfulness
Asef Bayat
3.:
The Drama of Jihad: The Emergence of Salafi Youth in Indonesia
Noorhaidi Hasan
4.:
Moroccan Youth and Political Islam
Mounia Bennani-Chraïbi
5.:
Rebels without a Cause? A Politics of Deviance in Saudi Arabia
Abdullah al-Otaibi and Pascal Ménoret
6.:
The Battle of the Ages: Contests for Religious Authority in The Gambia
Marloes Janson
7.:
Cyber Resistance: Palestinian Youth and Emerging Internet Culture
Makram Khoury-Machool
Livelihoods and Lifestyles
8.:
Young Egyptians' Quest for Jobs and Justice
Linda Herrera
9.:
Reaching a Larger World: Muslim Youth and Expanding Circuitries of Operation
AbdouMaliq Simone
10.:
Being Young, Muslim and American in Brooklyn
Moustafa Bayoumi
Strivings for Citizenship
11.:
'Also the School Is a Temple': Republicanism, Imagined Transnational Spaces, and the Schooling Of Muslim Youth in France
André Elias Mazawi
12.:
Avoiding "Youthfulness"? Young Muslims Negotiating Gender and Citizenship in France and Germany
Schirin Amir-Moazami
13.:
Struggles over Defining the Moral City: Islam and Urban Public Life in Iran
Azam Khatam
Navigating Identities
14.:
Securing Futures: Youth, Generation, and Muslim Identities in Niger
Adeline Masquelier
15.:
"Rasta" Sufis and Muslim Youth Culture in Mali
Benjamin F. Soares
16.:
Performance, Politics and Visceral Transformation: Post-Islamist Youth in Turkey
Ay?e Saktanber
17.:
Negotiating with Modernity: Young Women and Sexuality in Iran
Fatemeh Sadeghi
Musical Politics
18.:
Funental's "Jihad Rap"
Ted Swedenburg
19.:
Maroc-Hop: Music and Youth Identities in the Netherlands
Miriam Gazzah
20.:
Heavy Metal in the Middle East: New Urban Spaces in a Translocal Underground
Pierre Hecker
21.:
Music VCDs and the New Generation: Negotiating Youth, Femininity and Islam in Indonesia
Suzanne Naafs
22.:
Conclusion: Knowing Muslim Youth
Linda Herrera and Asef Bayat
References
Author Bios