Islamic Britain
Religion, Politics and Identity Among British Muslims
Philip Lewis(Author)
I.B. Tauris (Publisher)
Published on 29. March 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-86064-815-1 (ISBN)
Description
From the 1980s Britain's large Muslim community, a long established but little noticed group, suddenly became visible as controversies involving the education and dress of Muslim schoolgirls, the Rushdie affair and the Gulf War excited huge media interest. Caricatures and misconceptions began to spread and, with political Islam on the march in many Middle Eastern countries, fears of British Muslims becoming a bridgehead in the West for the establishment of an Islamic theocracy began to loom in the popular imagination. How do British Muslims really think about themselves, about their religion and their politics? What dilemmas do they face as they give up the "myth of return" that sustained first-generation immigrants and struggle to define a British Islam? In this important book, the first major study of British Muslims, Philip Lewis deals with the reality behind distorted media images through a rich, first-hand account of the Muslim community in Bradford - the city which became the epicentre of British Muslim anger and resistance to "The Satanic Verses".
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
glossary, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 134 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-86064-815-1 (9781860648151)
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Content
Britain's Muslim communities; Islam in South Asia; Bradford - Britain's "Islamabad"; Islamic institutions in Bradford; the "'Ulama" - the making and influence of a British Muslim leadership; beyond sectarianism - the role of the Council for Mosques; looking forward - Muslim communities in the 1990s.