As well as describing what unifies Muslims in 'what Islam teaches', it also emphasises the vast diversity that exists among Muslims. It is divided into six sections covering Islam's history, civilisations, ideas, people, issues and future. This book introduces the general reader to the history, beliefs and practices of Islam with a particular focus on the Irish experience. Although born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, Rachel lives with her family in Tipperary, Ireland, which everyone delights in telling her is a long way to go.Ĭurrent Projects Manuscript on Islam and Muslims in Ireland Mosque in Clonskeagh, Dublin.

Her research interests include Muslim social inclusion/exclusion, sociology of religiosity, Islamophobia, identity & stigma, multiculturalism, and Muslim feminism. Dr Woodlock has lectured widely and taught subjects on Islam and Muslims at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She completed a Bachelor of Arts (Arabic & Islamic Studies) and a Master of Islamic Studies at the University of Melbourne, and her doctoral research undertaken at Monash University looked at the social integration of religious Muslims in Australia. She also co-wrote For God's Sake: An Atheist, a Jew, a Christian and a Muslim Debate Religion (Pan MacMillan, 2013), discussing some of life's biggest questions.

She co-edited Fear of Muslims? International Perspectives on Islamophobia with Professor Douglas Pratt (Springer, 2016), an evidenced-based examination of Islamophobia in both 'old-world' Europe and the 'new-world' of America and Australia, and also Southeast Asia. Dr Rachel Woodlock is an academic and writer who researches and teaches about Islam and Muslims.

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