The Enigma of Diversity
that are imposed on Muslim bodies. They are understood in relation to their stance on religious violence. Muslim bodies are racialized when they are denied the ability to be whole and complex human beings but instead are reduced to "religious subjects" (p. 111) One of the weaknesses of the book is Tyrer's lack of attention to religious signifiers, such as the hijab or a Muslim name, and how they contribute to the racialization of Muslim bodies. Perhaps the use of discourse analysis contributes to the inability to examine how these factors are important to understand how interpretations of a Muslim body, and consequently Islamophobia, is about race. Tyrer's focus on the incorporeality of Muslim bodies could easily be contested by a closer examination of the way the hijab acts as a physical marker of difference for Muslim women resulting in their racialization. Overall, The Politics of Islamophobia is a theoretical contribution to both studies on Islamophobia and race theory. Tyrer successfully rearticulates Islamophobia as a study about race rather than religion.