Islam in the West Key Issues in Multiculturalism

by Farrar, Max; Robinson, Simon; Valli, Yasmin; Wetherly, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780230238749
• ISBN10: 0230238742
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-08-07
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book contributes to understanding of the contemporary relationship between Muslims and the Western societies in which they live, focusing particularly on the UK. Chapters reflect on the nature of multiculturalism, as well as a wide range of specific aspects of daily life, including religious dialogue, gender, freedom of speech and politics.

Author Biography

Max Farrar is a Sociologist and Emeritus Professor at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. He was Professor for Community Engagement, Community Partnerships and Volunteering, and headed the University's Community Partnerships and Volunteering office until 2010. His research concentrates on the social, economic, cultural and political issues that have arisen in the neighbourhoods in British cities in which minority ethnic populations have settled in the past 50 years. His teaching has similarly concentrated on issues of race and racism. Simon Robinson is Professor of Professional Ethics at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, Associate Director at the Ethics Centre of Excellence, and Visiting Fellow in Theology, University of Leeds, UK. He was ordained into the Church of England priesthood in 1978 and entered university chaplaincy, developing research and teaching in areas of applied ethics. Yasmin Valli is Principal Lecturer and Teaching Fellow at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. She was an Additional Inspector of the OFSTED team for Primary and the Independent Sector. She led a national project to promote the teaching profession among black and minority ethnic communities. She was lead author for 'Cultural Inclusivity', a guide for Leeds Met staff (2009). She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the National Teaching Awards Trust. In 2003 she was awarded the prestigious Windrush Award for Education Champions. Paul Wetherly is Reader in Politics at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, specialising in political theory. He is the author of Marxism and the State (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and editor (with Peter Burnham and Clyde Barrow) of Class, Power and the State in Capitalist Society (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. x
Foreword: A Personal Reflection by Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra	p. xiv
Acknowledgements	p. xix
Glossary of Islamic Terms	p. xx
Introduction: 'Islam', 'the West' and 'Multiculturalism'	p. 1
Multiculturalism in the UK: A Contested Discourse	p. 7
Multiculturalism: Commonality, Diversity and Psychological Integration	p. 24
Freedom of Expression, Multiculturalism and the 'Danish Cartoons'	p. 36
Pope Benedict XVI's Regensburg Lecture: A Flashpoint in Christian-Muslim Relations	p. 56
Secularism and the Accommodation of Religious Law: Reflections on Rowan Williams' Lecture	p. 65
The Role of Muslim Women in Britain in Relation to the Government's 'Prevent Agenda'	p. 79
Veiled Interventions in Pure Space: Honour, Shame and Embodied Struggles among Muslims in Britain and France	p. 103
Sexuality Politics in Islam	p. 121
Deconstructing the Debate around Sport and the 'Question' of 'Muslim Minorities' in the West	p. 138
Islam, Responsibility and Business	p. 154
Towards a Shared Future? Opportunity and Denial in Bradford's Experience of Ethnic and Religious Change	p. 169
From Madrassa to Mainstream - The Role of the Madrassa in Shaping the Core Islamic Values and Practice among Young British Muslims	p. 187
The Construction of Criminality and Disorder among British Muslim Young People	p. 201
Islamism and Terror: A Western Way of Doing Politics	p. 216
Bibliography	p. 239
Index	p. 262
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