Ahmadiyya Islam And The Muslim Diaspora

Author : Marzia Balzani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351769532

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Ahmadiyya Islam and the Muslim Diaspora by Marzia Balzani Pdf

This book is a study of the UK-based Ahmadiyya Muslim community in the context of the twentieth-century South Asian diaspora. Originating in late nineteenth-century Punjab, the Ahmadis are today a vibrant international religious movement; they are also a group that has been declared heretic by other Muslims and one that continues to face persecution in Pakistan, the country the Ahmadis made their home after the partition of India in 1947. Structured as a series of case studies, the book focuses on the ways in which the Ahmadis balance the demands of faith, community and modern life in the diaspora. Following an overview of the history and beliefs of the Ahmadis, the chapters examine in turn the use of ceremonial occasions to consolidate a diverse international community; the paradoxical survival of the enchantments of dreams and charisma within the structures of an institutional bureaucracy; asylum claims and the ways in which the plight of asylum seekers has been strategically deployed to position the Ahmadis on the UK political stage; and how the planning and building of mosques serves to establish a home within the diaspora. Based on fieldwork conducted over several years in a range of formal and informal contexts, this timely book will be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience from social and cultural anthropology, South Asian studies, the study of Islam and of Muslims in Europe, refugee, asylum and diaspora studies, as well as more generally religious studies and history.

Author : Mahrukh Arif-Tayyeb
Publisher : Editions L'Harmattan
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782140208454

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Ahmadis and Muslim identity in Diaspora by Mahrukh Arif-Tayyeb Pdf

In the introduction to his book, Yohannan Friedmann wrote that the Ahmadiyya has been one of the “most active and controversial movements within modern Islam”. Indeed, the Muslimness of the Ahmadis has been debated ever since the inception of the movement in the 19th century, where several successive fatwas declared its supporters to be heretics and deviants. In Pakistan, this Muslim minority will be declared non-muslim through a Constitutional amendment and later an Ordinance will go as far as criminalizing their right to be Muslims. The community will thus face a wave of persecution and violence under the sight of the Pakistani State's silence. In 1984, the community led by a caliphate will find refuge in Britain and will start to explore the freedom to express and display their religious identity in a visible manner. Through the theoretical framework of two sociologists of the School of Chicago - Howard Becker and Erving Goffman - and their work on deviant communities, this book explores to what extent the lack of recognition of the Muslim identity of Ahmadis in Pakistan evolves in the specific diasporic context of Britain. This book examines the relationship between the treatment of a politically controlled minority in a theocracy and the modalities of its importation into a Western democracy.

Author : Haideh Moghissi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135985417

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Muslim Diaspora by Haideh Moghissi Pdf

This book charts the experiences of the Islamic diaspora around the world. It incorporates a broad range of case studies and includes issues such as identity, religious background and gender.

Author : Haideh Moghissi,Halleh Ghorashi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317091172

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Muslim Diaspora in the West by Haideh Moghissi,Halleh Ghorashi Pdf

In view of the growing influence of religion in public life on the national and international scenes, Muslim Diaspora in the West constitutes a timely contribution to scholarly debates and a response to concerns raised in the West about Islam and Muslims within diaspora. It begins with the premise that diasporic communities of Islamic cultures, while originating in countries dominated by Islamic laws and religious practices, far from being uniform, are in fact shaped in their existence and experiences by a complex web of class, ethnic, gender, religious and regional factors, as well as the cultural and social influences of their adopted homes. Within this context, this volume brings together work from experts within Europe and North America to explore the processes that shape the experiences and challenges faced by migrants and refugees who originate in countries of Islamic cultures. Presenting the latest research from a variety of locations on both sides of The Atlantic, Muslim Diaspora in the West addresses the realities of diasporic life for self-identified Muslims, addressing questions of integration, rights and equality before the law, and challenging stereotypical views of Muslims. As such, it will appeal to scholars with interests in race and ethnicity, cultural, media and gender studies, and migration.

Author : Maurits S. Hassankhan,Goolam Vahed,Lomarsh Roopnarine
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351986878

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Indentured Muslims in the Diaspora by Maurits S. Hassankhan,Goolam Vahed,Lomarsh Roopnarine Pdf

This is the fourth publication originating from the conference Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour: Past, Present and Future, which was organised in June 2013 by the Institute of Graduate Studies and Research (IGSR), Anton de Kom University of Suriname. The core of the book is based on a conference panel which focused specifically on the experience of Muslim with indentured migrants and their descendants. This is a significant contribution since the focus of most studies on Indian indenture has been almost exclusively on Hindu religion and culture, even though an estimated seventeen percent of migrants were Muslims. This book thus fills an important gap in the indentured historiography, both to understand that past as well as to make sense of the present, when Muslim identities are undergoing rapid changes in response to both local and global realities. The book includes a chapter on the experiences of Muslim indentured immigrants of Indonesian descent who settled in Suriname. The core questions in the study are as follows: What role did Islam play in the lives of (Indian) Muslim migrants in their new settings during indenture and in the post-indenture period? How did Islam help migrants adapt and acculturate to their new environment? What have been the similarities and differences in practices, traditions and beliefs between Muslim communities in the different countries and between them and the country of origin? How have Islamic practices and Muslim identities transformed over time? What role does Islam play in the Muslims’ lives in these countries in the contemporary period? In order to respond to these questions, this book examines the historic place of Islam in migrants’ place of origin and provides a series of case studies that focus on the various countries to which the indentured Indians migrated, such as Mauritius, South Africa, Guyana, Trinidad, Suriname and Fiji, to understand the institutionalisation of Islam in these settings and the actual lived experience of Muslims which is culturally and historically specific, bound by the circumstances of individuals’ location in time and space. The chapters in this volume also provide a snapshot of the diversity and similarity of lived Muslim experiences.

Author : Craig Considine
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315462769

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Islam, Race, and Pluralism in the Pakistani Diaspora by Craig Considine Pdf

Fahid: embracing the 'Athens of America' -- Azum: questioning Irish interculturalism -- Azmat: guarding the American civic nation -- Azmi: being the 'new Irish' -- Promoting inclusive nations -- References -- 8. Dousing Pakphobia -- Instigators of Pakphobia -- Religious pluralism, interculturalism, and civic nations -- Suggestions for the future -- The turning point -- References -- Glossary -- Appendix 1: Interviewees -- Appendix 2: Semi-structured interview guide -- Appendix 3: Streams of Islam -- Index

Author : Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190287375

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Muslims in the West by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad Pdf

Today, Muslims are the second largest religious group in much of Europe and North America. The essays in this collection look both at the impact of the growing Muslim population on Western societies, and how Muslims are adapting to life in the West. Part I looks at the Muslim diaspora in Europe, comprising essays on Britain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, and the Netherlands. Part II turns to the Western Hemisphere and Muslims in the U.S. , Canada, and Mexico. Throughout, the authors contend with such questions as: Can Muslims retain their faith and identity and at the same time accept and function within the secular and pluralistic traditions of Europe and America? What are the limits of Western pluralism? Will Muslims come to be fully accepted as fellow citizens with equal rights? An excellent guide to the changing landscape of Islam, this volume is an indispensable introduction to the experiences of Muslims in the West, and the diverse responses of their adopted countries.

Author : Michael Nijhawan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781137488541

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The Precarious Diasporas of Sikh and Ahmadiyya Generations by Michael Nijhawan Pdf

This book examines the long-term effects of violence on the everyday cultural and religious practices of a younger generation of Ahmadis and Sikhs in Frankfurt, Germany and Toronto, Canada. Comparative in scope and the first to discuss contemporary articulations of Sikh and Ahmadiyya identities within a single frame of reference, the book assembles a significant range of empirical data gathered over ten years of ethnographic fieldwork. In its focus on precarious sites of identity formation, the volume engages with cutting-edge theories in the fields of critical diaspora studies, migration and refugee studies, religion, secularism, and politics. It presents a novel approach to the reading of Ahmadi and Sikh subjectivities in the current climate of anti-immigrant movements and suspicion against religious others. Michael Nijhawan also offers new insights into what animates emerging movements of the youth and their attempts to reclaim forms of the spiritual and political.

Author : Moha Ennaji
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137554963

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New Horizons of Muslim Diaspora in Europe and North America by Moha Ennaji Pdf

This book provides insights into some of the social topics related to the homogenization and stereotyping of Muslims. It explores the experiences of Muslims in Western societies, with a particular focus not only on gender, home and belonging, multiculturalism, and ethnicity.

Author : Mario Peucker,Rauf Ceylan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783658138899

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Muslim Community Organizations in the West by Mario Peucker,Rauf Ceylan Pdf

The book focusses on the historical emergence and contemporary challenges of Muslim community organizations and their struggle for recognition as ordinary voices in multiethnic and multi-religious civil societies of Western democracies. It offers a range of different perspectives on how Muslim communities position themselves and navigate the social and political landscape shaped by, on the one hand, normalization of ethno-religious diversity and, on the other, ongoing misrecognition and essentialisation of Muslims in the West. The contributions from internationally acclaimed scholars as well as emerging researchers from Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Switzerland and Australia shine new light on both country-specific similarities and divergences.

Author : Tahir Abbas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : 1138229873

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Muslim Diasporas in the West by Tahir Abbas Pdf

While the subject of Christian-Muslim or Muslim-Christian interaction is still not a traditional or systematic discipline, interest in the encounter of these two religions has grown considerably over the last decade. Historians, including historians of Islam and Christianity have always been interested in the civilizational meeting of the two religions, in conflict or in times of peace. This includes aspects of post-colonial studies, which incorporate cultural, literary and political writings which consider the intellectual and social ruptures in so much of the Islamic world in the 19th and 20th centuries. Theologians however have only recently begin to appreciate the amount of material which illustrates the extent to which Christians and Muslims wrote about one another's faith and spoke of each other in a variety of contexts in both polemical and eirenic terms. These resources serve to enrich the understanding of one's own faith and the changing historical relationship with the other. Today, Muslim-Christian is often understood as Islam/West where the Christianity and secularism are either conflated or Christianity subsumed within the larger cultural framework of the west. 0Either way, Islam is a foreign presence and its points of reference not easily assimilated in the narrative of a Judaeo-Christian West. Nevertheless this has created an interesting intellectual and scholarly dynamic in a wide range of disciplines. This includes ethics, politics, gender studies and the emergence of an 'interfaith' literature which is increasingly used in scholarly as well as grass roots settings. The collection will comprise around sixty pre-published journal articles and some book chapters. Each volume will contain around 15 articles/chapters. The articles will be secondary sources analysing the works of individual Christian and Muslim scholars, so will not be extracts of primary material thought it is hoped that the majority will contain some primary material.

Author : Peter Hopkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317129127

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Geographies of Muslim Identities by Peter Hopkins Pdf

In recent years, geographies of identities, including those of ethnicity, religion, 'race' and gender, have formed an increasing focus of contemporary human geography. The events of September 11th, 2001 particularly illustrated the ways in which identities can be transformed across time and space by both global and local events of a social, cultural, political and economic nature. Such transformations have also demonstrated the temporal and spatial construction of hate and fear, and of increasing incidences of 'Islamophobia' through the construction of Muslims as 'the Other'. As the social scientific study of religion continues to be marginalized within mainstream scholarship, there remains an important gap in the literature. This timely book addresses this gap by collecting a range of cutting-edge contributions from the social, cultural, political, historical and economic sub-disciplines of geography, together with writings from gender studies, cultural studies and leisure studies where research has revealed a strong spatial dimension to the construction, representation, contestation and reworking of Muslim identities. The contributors illustrate the ways in which such identities are constructed, represented, negotiated and contested in everyday life in a wide variety of international contexts, focusing upon issues connected with diaspora, gender and belonging.

Author : Oliver Scharbrodt
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781474403474

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Muslims in Ireland by Oliver Scharbrodt Pdf

This book combines historical, sociological and ethnographic research methods to provide a rich and multi-faceted study of the Muslim presence in Ireland in its historical and contemporary dimensions.

Author : Arif-Tayyeb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2140208463

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Ahmadis and Muslim Identity in Diaspora by Arif-Tayyeb Pdf

Author : Syed Furrukh Zad Ali Shah
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783643909138

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Spaces of Engagement by Syed Furrukh Zad Ali Shah Pdf

This study reflects on discourses, politics, and culture of islamophobia with reference to Muslim diaspora communities in a post-migration Western European context. It argues that islamophobia is the product, as well as carries the agency, of Muslim diaspora enclave-exclave phenomenon. These socio-spatial encounters are not to be seen as divisive, but are to be understood as productive to seek to negotiate a transnational multi-cultural public space for integration. It is in this context that this study has sought to relocate European Islamophobia in Muslim diaspora enclaves. Dissertation. (Series: Islam in the Existence of Europe / Islam in der Lebenswelt Europa, Vol. 11) [Subject: Islamic Studies, Middle East Studies, Muslim Studies]