Nonbelievers Apostates and Atheists in the Muslim World

Nonbelievers Apostates and Atheists in the Muslim World offers a contemporary cross-cultural look at nonbelief and nonreligion in Islam. Providing historical conceptual statistical and ethnographic data on nonbelievers from Morocco to Egypt Turkey and Bangladesh it explores the unique nature and challenges of nonreligion for Muslims.It includes 11 chapters by experts on nonbelief nonreligion and atheism in an array of Muslim-majority countries. The book features multiple disciplines and offers both ethnographic and statistical information on this important growing but neglected population. It explores the unique nature of nonreligion in Islam illustrating that nonbelief is specific to a particular religious tradition. It also examines how ex-Muslims navigate complexities and dangers of their societies—especially for women—and how nonbelief and nonreligion do not equate to atheism or the total repudiation of religion or of Muslim identity. This book is an outstanding resource for scholars and students of nonbelief atheism secularism religion and contemporary Islam.