An Analysis of Islamophobia and the Anti-Islam Discourse

In the recent past, fear, hatred, and hostility toward Islam and Muslims inthe West have attracted increasing scholarly interest, a development that iscertainly commendable. Some important works have delved deeply intothe Western imagination and stereotyping of Islam and Muslims, amongthem John Victor Tolan’s Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam (1996)and Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination (2002),Fredrick Quinn’s The Sum of All Heresies: The Image of Islam in WesternThought (2008), Matthew Dimmock’s Mythologies of the Prophet Muhammadin Early Modern English Culture (2013),1 and Sophia Rose Arjana’sMuslims in the Western Imagination (2015) ...