Long viewed as Spain's "most Moorish city," Granada is now home to a growing Muslim population of Moroccan migrants and European converts to Islam. Mikaela Rogozen-Soltar examines how various residents of Granada mobilize historical narratives about the city's Muslim past in order to navigate tensions surrounding contemporary ethnic and religious pluralism. Focusing particular attention on the gendered, racial, and political dimensions of this new multiculturalism, Rogozen-Soltar explores how Muslim-themed tourism and Islamic cultural institutions coexist with anti-Muslim sentiments.
"This is a deeply engaged and timely study of the contradictions of Muslim belonging in Granada, Spain. Rogozen-Soltar's writing bespeaks a commitment not only to the craft of ethnography but to an ethical position that endows her interlocutors with great humanity. In an era of misunderstanding and intolerance, Spain Unmoored is not only a valuable contribution to the growing literature on Islam i
Jonathan H. Shannon, Hunter College, CUNY
"An impressively accomplished ethnography of the ambivalent inclusion and exclusion of Islam and Muslims in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. Detailing a set of social encounters between migrant Muslims, Spanish Muslim converts, and non-Muslim Granadians, Rogozen-Soltar successfully charts the unequal multiculturalism resulting from the periphal city's harnessing of a historical narrative of convivencia
Paul Silverstein, author of Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation
