Cosmopolitan Anxieties

"Ruth Mandel's study of the Turks of Germany is perhaps the most important single book yet written examining the complexity and contradictions of the Muslims in today's Europe. Looking at the various communities (Turks, Alevis, and Kurds) that make up the Turkish presence in Germany and delineating the complexity of a German identity after the Shoah and German reunification as the background to the debates about these Islamic presences, Mandel is able to provide first-hand, sophisticated answers to the most troubling questions about the shifting world of Islam in Europe. A study that will quickly become a classic for any examination of Europe and Islam."--Sander L. Gilman, author of "Multiculturalism and the Jews"