This booklet appears to be like at how Muslims in Spain have replaced laws associated with non secular pluralism and immigration and feature fortified Spain’s frail historical past and perform of democracy on account that 1975. Spanish Muslims have accomplished this via energetic civil engagement and a power fight for rights and for prestige as immigrants and as electorate on par with ethnic Spaniards. Muslims have interacted with Spanish renowned traditions, challenged Eurocentric ancient narratives, and used Spanish innovations resembling convivencia (peaceful coexistence) and arraigo (rootedness) to extend the existing building of belonging. The Muslim fight for civil rights took off in earnest in Melilla—with its historical ties to the Islamic state of Fez as much as 1497—between 1985 and 1988, while Muslim citizens puzzled nativist keep an eye on of the enclave. accordingly, from 1989 to 2001, on mainland Spain, Muslims shaped self sustaining organisations, driven for nationwide regularization of undocumented citizens, and proposed adjustments to immigration legislation. a first-rate concentration of the booklet is on how religious Muslims lobbied to institutionalize Islam in Spain, fought for the ideal to build mosques regardless of heavy nativist resistance, and balanced women’s rights within the Muslim group and broader secular context. the writer additionally examines the ways in which Muslims have interrogated the reminiscence of the Moor in Spanish background and in well known fairs, reminiscent of the pageant of Moors and Christians, and the way this has performed out in areas with powerful nationalist traditions, resembling Catalonia. The e-book concludes with a survey of the writings of Muslim immigrants in Spanish and in Catalan, and the way those works have publicized the standard adventure of migration in Spain.