Medina In Birmingham Najaf In Brent

Author : Innes Bowen
Publisher : Hurst
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849045308

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Medina in Birmingham, Najaf in Brent by Innes Bowen Pdf

Muslim intellectuals may try to define something called British Islam, but the truth is that as the Muslim community of Britain has grown in size and religiosity, so too has the opportunity to found and run mosques which divide along ethnic and sectarian lines. Just as most churches in Britain are affiliated to one of the main Christian denominations, the vast majority of Britain's 1600 mosques are linked to wider sectarian networks: the Deobandi and Tablighi Jamaat movements with their origins in colonial India; the Salafi groups inspired by an austere form of Islam widely practiced in Saudi Arabia; the Islamist movements with links to religious political parties in the Middle East and South Asia; the Sufi movements that tend to emphasise spirituality rather than religious and political militancy; and the diverse Shi'ite sects which range from the orthodox disciples of Grand Ayatollah Sistani in Iraq to the Ismaili followers of the pragmatic and modernising Aga Khan. These affiliations are usually not apparent to outsiders, but inside Britain's Muslim communities sectarian divides are often fiercely guarded by religious leaders. This book, of which no equivalent volume yet exists, is a definitive guide to the ideological differences, organisational structures and international links of the main Islamic groups active in Britain today.

Author : Innes Bowen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849043014

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Medina in Birmingham, Najaf in Brent by Innes Bowen Pdf

The ideology and history of Britain's main Islamic groups explained. Muslim intellectuals may try to define something called British Islam, but, the truth is that, as the Muslim community in Britain has grown, so has the opportunity to found and run mosques which divide along ethnic and sectarian lines.

Author : Stephen H. Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781838605889

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Islam and the Liberal State by Stephen H. Jones Pdf

National identity and liberal democracy are recurrent themes in debates about Muslim minorities in the West. Britain is no exception, with politicians responding to claims about Muslims' lack of integration by mandating the promotion of 'fundamental British values' including 'democracy' and 'individual liberty'. This book engages with both these themes, addressing the lack of understanding about the character of British Islam and its relationship to the liberal state. It charts a gradual but decisive shift in British institutions concerned with Islamic education, Islamic law and Muslim representation since Muslims settled in the UK in large numbers in the 1950s. Based on empirical research including interviews undertaken over a ten-year period with Muslims, and analysis of public events organized by Islamic institutions, Stephen Jones challenges claims about the isolation of British Islamic organizations and shows that they have decisively shaped themselves around British public and institutional norms. He argues that this amounts to the building of a distinctive 'British Islam'. Using this narrative, the book makes the case for a variety of liberalism that is open to the expression of religious arguments in public and to associations between religious groups and the state. It also offers a powerful challenge to claims about the insularity of British Islamic institutions by showing how the national orientation of Islam called for by British policymakers is, in fact, already happening.

Author : Anna Marotta
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004473096

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A Geo-Legal Approach to the English Sharia Courts by Anna Marotta Pdf

A study on the Islamic ADR institutions in England through the lens of Comparative Law and Geopolitics.

Author : Thomas Jäger
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031461736

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Handbook of Political Islam in Europe by Thomas Jäger Pdf

Author : Myra MacDonald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849048583

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Defeat is an Orphan by Myra MacDonald Pdf

When India and Pakistan held nuclear tests in 1998, they restarted the clock on a competition that had begun half a century earlier. Nuclear weapons restored strategic parity, erasing the advantage of India's much larger size and conventional military superiority. Yet in the years that followed Pakistan went on to lose decisively to India. It lost any ability to stake a serious claim to Kashmir, a region it called its jugular vein. Its ability to influence events in Afghanistan diminished. While India's growing economy won it recognition as a rising world power, Pakistan became known as a failing state. Pakistan had lost to India before but the setbacks since 1998 made this defeat irreversible. Defeat is an Orphan follows the rollercoaster ride through post-nuclear India-Pakistan, from bitter conflict in the mountains to military confrontation in the plains, from the hijacking of an Indian plane to the assault on Mumbai. Nuclear weapons proved to be Pakistan's undoing. They encouraged a reckless reliance on militant proxies even as the jihadis spun out of control outside and inside Pakistan. By shielding it from retaliation, the nuclear weapons also sealed it into its own dysfunction -- so much so that the Great South Asian War, fought on-and-off since 1947, was not so much won by India as lost by Pakistan.

Author : Amir Abdul Reda, Normanni B. Ismail, Ahmed Mabrouk, Ibrahim M. Zein, Tammy Gaber, Philipp Bruckmayr, Sjjad Rizvi, Walid Ghali, Amina Inoles, Saheed Ahmad Rufai, Julian Bond ,Muhammad Mumtaz Ali, Emran El-Badawi,Jay Willoughby, Hadeel Elardi
Publisher : International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 33:4 by Amir Abdul Reda, Normanni B. Ismail, Ahmed Mabrouk, Ibrahim M. Zein, Tammy Gaber, Philipp Bruckmayr, Sjjad Rizvi, Walid Ghali, Amina Inoles, Saheed Ahmad Rufai, Julian Bond ,Muhammad Mumtaz Ali, Emran El-Badawi,Jay Willoughby, Hadeel Elardi Pdf

The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS), established in 1984, is a quarterly, double blind peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal, published by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), and distributed worldwide. The journal showcases a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world including subjects such as anthropology, history, philosophy and metaphysics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam.

Author : Elham Manea
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786730220

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Women and Shari'a Law by Elham Manea Pdf

In response to recent media controversy and public debate about legal pluralism and multiculturalism, Manea argues against what she identifies as the growing tendency for people to be treated as 'homogenous groups' in Western academic discourse, rather than as individuals with authentic voices. Building on her knowledge of the situation for women in Middle Eastern and Islamic countries, she undertakes first-hand analysis of the Islamic shari'a councils and Muslim arbitration tribunals in various British cities. Based on meetings with the leading sheikhs - including the only woman on their panels - as well as interviews with experts on extremism, lawyers and activists in civil society and women's rights groups, Manea offers an impassioned critique of legal pluralism, connecting it with political Islam and detailing the lived experiences of women in Muslim communities.

Author : Abdul-Azim Ahmed
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350258990

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The Contemporary British Mosque by Abdul-Azim Ahmed Pdf

Repositioning mosques as social, cultural and political spaces, this book provides new insights on key contemporary debates, the religious identity of Britain, secularisation, the far-right and terrorism, and gender equality. Exploring the story of the British mosque, from house conversions to grand works of architecture, and the role they play in public life, Abdul-Azim Ahmed details the establishment of early mosques during the era of Empire, and the rapid growth in the years following the Second World War. Ahmed takes a sociological approach to this study, drawing on fieldwork and ethnographic case-studies, alongside reviews of databases and historical documents to provide perspectives on the British mosque from the congregants themselves. The Muslim congregation, a poorly understood and often overlooked dimension of religion in Britain, is examined, and issues of diversity, denomination, sacredness, and society are explored.

Author : Peter Mandaville
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Islam
ISBN : 9780197532560

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Wahhabism and the World by Peter Mandaville Pdf

There is a long-running debate about whether Saudi Arabia exportation of its highly conservative form of Islam known as Wahhabism has distorted or "corrupted" more moderate forms of Islam around the world. This volume is the first study to explore this question in detail based on social science research.

Author : Sabah Khan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003860099

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Muslim Diaspora in Britain by Sabah Khan Pdf

This book explores the idea of Muslim diaspora in context of Muslim communities in the United Kingdom. It critically looks at the notion of ummah and presents a comprehensive account of South Asian Muslims in London. Employing qualitative research methods and drawing on extensive fieldwork, it delves into the identification and transnational connections of Muslims in Britain. It shows the ways in which religious identity, practices and experiences may instigate diasporas focusing on South Asian Muslims in London — Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslims — who account for 3.6 per cent of the total population. Further, the inter as well as intra group dynamics and studies how Muslims of different ethnic background settled in the same geo-political context engage with the notion of ummah. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of religion, especially Islam, politics, British studies and South Asian studies.

Author : James Fergusson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781473567078

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Al-Britannia, My Country by James Fergusson Pdf

Shortlisted for the British Academy Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2018. 'A SERIOUSLY NECESSARY BOOK.' ROWAN WILLIAMS, FORMER ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY 'A MUST READ.' MIQDAAD VERSI, MUSLIM COUNCIL OF BRITAIN 'A COMPELLING AND COMPASSIONATE SURVEY OF BRITISH ISLAM.’ THE GUARDIAN 'A TIMELY BOOK.' BARONESS WARSI 'HUGELY IMPORTANT.' PETER OBORNE 'HEARTENING.' DAVID ANDERSON QC In this groundbreaking book, James Fergusson travels the length of Britain to explore our often misunderstood Muslim communities, and to experience life on both sides of our increasingly segregated society. The face of Britain is changing. The Muslim population has more than doubled over the last twenty years, and is projected to do so again over the next twenty. A societal shift of this size and speed has inevitably brought growing pains, with the impact on our communities becoming ever more profound – as well as painful, because in the eyes of many, Islam has a problem: the extremist views of a tiny minority, which, when translated into action, can result in catastrophic violence. The danger of this extremist threat - or our response to it - is that we are collectively starting to lose faith in the cultural diversity that has glued our nation together for so long. Our tolerance of others, so often celebrated as a ‘fundamental British value,’ is at risk. In this groundbreaking book, James Fergusson travels the length of Britain to evaluate the impact these seismic shifts have had on our communities. With the rise of nationalist movements, growing racial tensions and an increasingly out of touch political elite, what does it mean to be a Muslim in Britain? What is life like on both sides of this growing religious divide? And what can we do to heal the fractures appearing in our national fabric? Al-Britannia, My Country is a timely and urgent account of life in Britain today, a call to action filled with real-life experience, hard truths and important suggestions for our future.

Author : Jawad Syed,Edwina Pio,Tahir Kamran,Abbas Zaidi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349949663

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Faith-Based Violence and Deobandi Militancy in Pakistan by Jawad Syed,Edwina Pio,Tahir Kamran,Abbas Zaidi Pdf

This book documents and highlights the Deobandi dimension of extremism and its implications for faith-based violence and terrorism. This dimension of radical Islam remains largely ignored or misunderstood in mainstream media and academic scholarship. The book addresses this gap. It also covers the Deobandi diaspora in the West and other countries and the role of its radical elements in transnational incidents of violence and terrorism. The specific identification of the radical Deobandi and Salafi identity of militants is useful to isolate them from the majority of peaceful Sunni and Shia Muslims. Such identification provides direction to governmental resources so they focus on those outfits, mosques, madrassas, charities, media and social medial channels that are associated with these ideologies. This book comes along at a time when there is a dire need for alternative and contextual discourses on terrorism.

Author : Katayoun Alidadi,Marie-Claire Foblets
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317073772

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Public Commissions on Cultural and Religious Diversity by Katayoun Alidadi,Marie-Claire Foblets Pdf

In several Western countries, expert commissions composed of academics, public figures, politicians and community organisers have been established by governments or civil society to reflect on the changes and challenges of an increasingly plural society. Commission recommendations on how to ‘manage’ diversities successfully have shaped national narratives and affected law and public policies, yet research on the workings of such commissions remains rare. This book focuses on the experiences of expert commissions in the UK, France, Quebec and Belgium. Furthering the debate on commissions’ potential and limitations it draws on the first-hand experiences and introspection of former commission members and close observers, along with outside perspectives and critique from independent scholars. Building on its companion volume (Public Commissions on Cultural and Religious Diversity: Analysis, Reception and Challenges), this book engages with core concepts of identity, nationality, citizenship, freedom, equality and accommodation. It will appeal to researchers and students of public policy, sociology, anthropology, law, religion, politics, history and migration studies, as well as policymakers and anyone with a general interest in current debates on ethnic, cultural and religious diversity.

Author : Matthew Wilkinson,Lamia Irfan,Muzammil Quraishi,Mallory (University of Fribourg Schneuwly Purdie, Switzerland),Mallory Schneuwly Purdie
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781447363606

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Islam in Prison by Matthew Wilkinson,Lamia Irfan,Muzammil Quraishi,Mallory (University of Fribourg Schneuwly Purdie, Switzerland),Mallory Schneuwly Purdie Pdf

Are you a prison officer who feels nervous about dealing with Muslims on the wings? Are you a prison chaplain who wants to know how your chaplaincy affects the lives of prisoners? Are you a policymaker who needs a robust base of evidence for Islam in prison? Are you an academic or a journalist seeking ground-breaking social science in a contentious field? Based on original evidence from 279 Muslim prisoners and 79 prison officers, we explore how Muslims come to be incarcerated, how the practice of Islam affects prison life and rehabilitation, the types of Islam and the effects of Islamic conversion in prison and the professional practice of officers and chaplains. We also investigate the common belief that incarceration fosters Islamist extremism and suggest improvements to faith provision and rehabilitative opportunities for Muslim prisoners.