A compelling alternative analysis of the Trojan Horse affair, shining much-needed light on a serious but neglected vector of educational inequality in the UK. --Reza Gholami, University of Birmingham

This highly engaging book charts the pervasive and politically motivated racialization of Muslim communities in Britain today. Detailed in its use of evidence and comprehensive in its analysis, it should be compulsory reading for everybody interested in the working of the state. --Nasar Meer, University of Edinburgh

John Holmwood is Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham, having previously been at the University of Birmingham. From 2012 to 2014, he was President of the British Sociological Association and in 2014/15, he was Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA. He acted as an Expert Witness to the Court in the National College for Teaching and Leadership hearings against teachers arising from the Trojan Horse affair. Therese O'Toole is Reader in Sociology at the University of Bristol and a member of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, where she works on ethnicity, religion, governance and political participation. She led a major ESRC/AHRC study of Muslim Participation in Contemporary Governance that examined the impact of the Prevent agenda on state-Muslim engagement in the UK at the national level and in 3 case-study areas: Birmingham, Leicester and Tower Hamlets, and an AHRC Connected Communities study of the local implementation of Prevent in Bristol.