Young British Muslims Identity, Culture, Politics and the Media

by Kabir, Nahid Afrose

• ISBN13: 9780748641338
• ISBN10: 0748641335
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-26
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Summary

The 7/7 bombings that shook London created a new, highly politicized atmosphere, especially for Britain's young Muslim population. Young British Muslimsconstructs a portrait of contemporary British Muslim identity through social constructs such as migration, settlement, religion, culture, socioeconomic status, and wider social environments. Nahid Afrose Kabir is a long-time researcher of young Muslim identity in Australia and the UK. For this book, she conducts ethnographic fieldwork with more than two hundred young Muslims from five British cities: London, Leicester, Bradford, Leeds, and Cardiff. Her careful analysis and revealing interviews offer insight into the hopes and aspirations of British Muslims, and her impeccable selection of testimony represents a remarkable range of ethnicities: Algerian, Bangladeshi, Indian, Iranian, Iraqi, Kenyan, Libyan, Mauritius, Moroccan, Pakistani, Palestinian, Somali, Sudanese, Syrian, Yemeni, and English and Scottish converts. Emphasizing the value of biculturalism, Kabir paints a realistic and hopeful vision of Muslims and their successful integration into British society.

Author Biography

Nahid Afrose Kabir is a visiting fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, USA. She is the author of Muslims in Australia: Immigration, Race Relations and Cultural History (2005).

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures	p. vi
List of abbreviations	p. vii
Glossary	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. x
Foreword	p. xii
Introduction: my research observations	p. 1
The identity debate	p. 6
Muslims in Britain: an overview	p. 28
The religious and cultural dilemma	p. 58
To be or not to be British	p. 79
Is the media biased against Muslims?	p. 112
The niqab debate	p. 143
Indignation about the proposal to include shariah law in Britain	p. 169
Conclusion: a humanitarian way forward	p. 199
Bibliography	p. 219
Index	p. 231
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