Introduction -- "Islamophobia": the word and the world -- Islam, culture and anarchy: faith, doubt and liberalism in Ian McEwan and John Updike -- From multiculturalism to Islamophobia: identity politics and individualism in Hanif Kureishi and Monica Ali -- Muslim misery memoirs: the truth claims of exotic suffering in Azar Nafisi and Khaled Hosseini -- Migrant cartographies: Islamophobia and the politics of the city space in Amy Waldman and H.M. Naqvi -- States of statelessness: Islamophobia and border spaces in the thrillers of John Le Carre, Dan Fesperman and Richard Flanagan -- Islamophobia and the global novel: 'worlding' history in Nadeem Aslam and Kamila Shamsie -- Marketing the Muslim: globalisation and the postsecular in Mohsin Hamid and Leila Aboulela -- Conclusion: towards a critical Muslim literary studies.
