Acknowledgments -- List of contributors -- Controversies and publics -- Introduction : Islamic controversies in the making of European public spheres / Nilufer Gole -- How do you become contemporary? : on controversies and common sense / Olivier Remaud -- Secularism and/or cosmopolitanism / Etienne Balibar -- Public islam, piety and secularity -- Self, Islam and secular public spaces / Jocelyne Cesari -- The mosque and the European city / Nebahat Avcolu -- Conflicts over mosques in Europe : between symbolism and territory / Stefano Allievi -- The secular embodiments of face-veil controversies across Europe / Schirin Amir-Moazami -- Islam, art and the european imaginary -- Representing prophets and saints in islam: from classical positions to present-day reactions / Silvia Naef -- Islam in the mirror of our phantasms / John V. Tolan -- The case of the Danish cartoons controversy : the paradox of civility / Sune Lgaard -- Halal arts : censorship or creative ethical practice? / Jeanette S. Jouili -- Halal, sharia and secular law : competing sources of normativity -- The British debate over sharia councils : a French-style controversy? / Jean Philippe Bras -- Ethics and affects in British sharia councils : "a simple way of getting to paradise" / Julie Billaud -- The eclectic usage of halal and conflicts of authority / Rachid Id Yassine -- Animal rights movements and ritual slaughtering : autopsy of a moribund campaign / Florence Bergeaud-Blackler -- Halal circle : intimacy and friendship among the young Muslims of europe / Simone Maddanu -- European genealogies of islam and politics of memory -- Medieval Spain and the integration of memory (on the unfinished project of pre-modernity) / Gil Anidjar -- The contemporary afterlife of Moorish Spain / Charles Hirschkind -- Fugitive or cosmopolitan : the Bosniaks' desire for Europe and trouble with the Ottoman past / Halide Veliolu -- Index.