Tahir Abbas
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 114688 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Tahir Abbas |
| PRENOMES | Tahir |
| SOBRENOME | Abbas |
| ASSINATURA | ABBAS T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Aston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0968-3261 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 98 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 280 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 96 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
The European Divide
Structural Exclusion and Health Inequalities among British Muslims
British Muslims experience marked health inequalities rooted in discrimination, racialised policing, housing density and financial hardship. This study examines whether two proposed protective mechanisms—trust in public institutions and community-level social capital—mediate the relationship between structural exclusion and health, and whether religious observance and local belonging and connectedness operate in equivalent ways. Using 1,977 Musli…
Defensive secularism reconsidered
The concept of ‘defensive secularism’ has gained traction as an explanation of contemporary anti-Muslim sentiment in Britain: as Christian identity fades, non-religious Britons are said to reject crude stereotypes about Muslims while harbouring intellectualised concern about Islamic doctrine, perceived as a threat to liberal values. This paper tests that claim using a nationally representative survey of 2,141 UK adults conducted in May 2025, dist…
The halal social sphere
This contribution examines the emergence and consolidation of a halal social sphere across Europe. It conceptualises this sphere as a distinct moral economy and a resilient counterpublic that signals a localised European expression of a post-Islamist turn. Refuting views of separatist withdrawal, the analysis depicts a fluid, adaptive, and strategic network of initiatives led by Muslims demonstrating significant agency amidst structural constrain…
‘They don’t want us here’
From mid-July 2025, an organised nationalist movement known as Operation Raise the Colours (ORC) began saturating English residential streets with St George’s Cross and Union Jack flags. Emerging one year after the Southport riots of summer 2024, ORC has converted lampposts, roundabouts and motorway bridges into a communicative grid that addresses certain bodies as out of place. This article asks how young people read, feel, and navigate this tra…
The imperial boomerang
This essay examines the imperial boomerang as a continuous global system of racialised governance that positions Muslims as central subjects. Drawing on postcolonial theory, critical race studies, and critical Muslim studies, it argues that techniques of control developed in colonial rule across Muslim-majority regions have returned to Western metropoles, where they are refined through the regulation of domestic Muslim minorities before being rea…
Discrimination, grievance, and the endorsement of political violence in The Netherlands
This paper investigates the pathways through which perceived discrimination and social exclusion translate into the endorsement of political violence in the Netherlands. The research concludes that extremist sentiments emerge from the psycho-social consequences of blocked social recognition and institutional exclusion, rather than from religious identity. The quantitative findings indicate that Muslim identity is not an inherent predictor of extr…
Laïcité and the contestation of belonging
This article examines how French Muslims navigate the contested terrain of laïcité twenty years after the 2004 law banning conspicuous religious symbols in public schools. Drawing on twenty-five in-depth interviews with French Muslims and first-generation immigrant residents conducted in Paris and Tours between July 2023 and June 2024, the study makes three connected arguments. First, it documents an analytical bifurcation in participants’ framin…
Manufacturing Consent
This paper analyses ‘Faragism’, the right‐wing populist movement associated with Nigel Farage, not as a transient political moment but as an evolving hegemonic project that has reshaped British politics. Drawing on Gramsci, and on subsequent elaborations by Hall, Laclau, and Mouffe, it develops a three‐phase model explaining how such movements achieve durability through strategic adaptation, surviving the resolution of signature objectives by piv…
A place for extremism
This research investigates the causal pathways linking nativist grievance, conceptualised as territorial status anxiety and the defence of neighbourhood boundaries in super-diverse environments, to extremist violent ideation, mediated by relative deprivation. Developing a spatially-sensitive theoretical model, the paper argues that the global city (London) functions not merely as an inanimate stage, but as an active engine that fundamentally cons…
The credential reversal
This paper identifies a distinctive “credential reversal” among British Muslims, whereby higher educational attainment erodes institutional trust, inverting standard meritocratic patterns. Analysing UK European Social Survey data (2002–2023), multi-level models demonstrate this penalty is specific to Muslims and not observed among the White British majority or aggregated non-Muslim minorities. The findings reject cumulative disadvantage theory: r…
Geopolitics at Home
This article examines religious identity among Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities across four European nations. Survey data from 3,025 respondents reveal that societal threat heightens religiosity for minorities, although conditionally. Jewish respondents show increased religiosity linked to international conflict, whereas civic trust buffers this reaction among Muslims. These findings suggest religious intensification reflects social cont…
Acute to Chronic Islamophobia
This paper examines the evolving role of the counterterrorism state in Islamophobia across Northern Europe, exploring how new preventative counterextremism measures have reshaped Islamophobia from acute articulations of violence to chronic social exclusion and how young Muslims have sought to respond. Drawing on 114 interviews with young Muslims aged 18–25 in the UK, Netherlands, Denmark, and Norway, along with eight subsequent focus groups, the …
The securitized synagogue
This research paper examines safety perceptions among Jewish minorities at European places of worship (PoWs) between October 2023 and April 2024. The study utilizes PROTONE survey data from Belgium (N = 571), Germany (N = 734), Spain (N = 1198), and Italy (N = 895), specifically comparing 79 Jewish and 3,318 non-Jewish respondents. Qualitative components include 43 interviews with faith leaders (including 16 Rabbis) and five focus groups conducte…
The geography of discontent revisited
This paper investigates drivers of anti-diversity sentiment among the UK’s white majority. Using Latent Class Analysis on 2023 survey data (N = 2,535), we map five distinct clusters, including a large ‘Anxious Nationalist’ bloc driven by racialised status threat and a ‘Pro-Securitisation’ minority. Multilevel modelling decouples national formations from local influences. Our results suggest city deprivation does not predict membership, tentativel…
The complexity of coexistence
This paper interrogates the coexistence of broad multicultural ideals with persistent anti-Muslim sentiment in the Netherlands; a nation historically celebrated for tolerance but increasingly marked by tensions over integration. Drawing on original analysis of a 2023 EC-funded H2020 project survey (N = 1963), we reveal a sharp divide: while Dutch respondents express moderate support for multiculturalism as a principle (M = 4.60), attitudes toward…
The dynamics of Islamophobia and Islamism
This article explores the connections between systemic Islamophobia, exclusion and Islamist attitudes among young Muslims in four EU countries, utilising mixed-methods data, including 222 survey responses and 114 interviews. Analysis indicates a U-shaped correlation between Islamophobia and Islamism: moderate levels of perceived Islamophobia correlate with lower Islamist tendencies; moderate levels are associated with reduced tendencies; excessiv…
Capitalism, State Power, and the Production of Extremism
Introduction to the Special Issue Beyond the Crisis Frame
Entitled Constructing the ‘European Muslim Crisis’: Discourse, Policy, and Everyday Realities, this Special Issue was born from a critical imperative: to move beyond the taken-for-granted assumption of a ‘Muslim crisis’ in Europe and to instead interrogate the very assembly of this narrative [...]
Echoes of Fascism
This paper examines how social exclusion and relative deprivation foster extremist ideologies among Muslim minorities and ethnic majorities in four Northwestern European countries and to what extent theories of fascism can help to unravel these contemporary trends. We identify three key findings based on extensive interview data from the DRIVE project. First, minority and majority participants express ideological positions sharing structural simi…
Humiliation and perceived power loss as drivers of radicalisation vulnerability in Northwestern Europe
This study explores the relationships between humiliation, perceived power loss, discrimination, and vulnerability to radicalisation across Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom. Analysing survey data from 5,501 respondents, we developed a measure of radicalisation vulnerability that captures both general vulnerability factors and specific ideological orientations. Muslims and ethnic minorities were marginally more likely to ex…
The suspect citizen
This article examines British Muslim experiences of the UK’s Prevent counter-terrorism strategy, drawing on 18 qualitative interviews in London and Birmingham. It argues that Prevent contributes to the racialisation and securitisation of Muslims, reinforcing their image as a ‘suspect community’, which aligns with existing critiques of counter-terrorism policies being discriminatory and Islamophobic. However, the study emphasises the diversity wit…
Resilience and resistance
Beyond the racialised Islamophobic narrative
This paper’s primary contribution is an evidence-based critique of European securitisation policy, founded on the flawed premise that Muslim identity is a risk factor for political violence. Our multinational, mixed-methods study (415 interviews; 5268 surveys) demonstrates this premise is empirically fallacious. The study’s most significant finding is that a strong Muslim identity is a protective factor, reducing the odds of supporting violence i…
From symbolic violence to structural exclusion
Amid growing concerns over rising religious tensions and anti-Muslim sentiment in Europe, this study develops and validates a robust Islamophobia Index to systematically measure experiences of discrimination among Muslim communities. Leveraging survey data from 3598 respondents (including 466 Muslims) across Belgium, Germany, Spain, and Italy, confirmatory factor analysis validated a three-factor structure for the Islamophobia Index, comprising E…
Muslim Minorities in Britain
This paper is a discussion of the experiences of British Muslim communities in the light of the events of 7/7. The social, economic and political positions of British Muslims have been important public policy and academic and popular discourse considerations since the focus on the Rushdie Affair of 1989 and the general rise of Islamophobia ever since. However, the events of 9/11, the impact of anti-terror legislation upon Muslim communities, and …
The impact of inter‐generational change on the attitudes of working‐class South Asian Muslim parents on the education of their daughters
This paper presents the findings of ethnographic research into inter‐generational attitudinal change of parents towards the education of young British Muslim women. Based on in‐depth interviews with parents of different generations, given social class and ethnicity, there is a universal belief in the importance of education for young Muslim women per se, with economic and cultural factors significant in shaping this sentiment. A range of importan…
Ethnic minority business in comparative perspective
British research on ethnic minority entrepreneurship has often endeavoured to account for the prominence or otherwise of ethnic minority groups in business. This trend towards explicating the diversity of ethnic minorities in business has intensified with recent attention to apparently significant variations within the South Asian community itself. But how 'different' is ethnic minority business activity from the wider small firm population? This…
Apprentice Entrepreneurs'? Ethnic Minority Workers in the Independent Restaurant Sector
Ethnic minority business activity has often been presented as a vehicle for `upward mobility' for owners and workers alike. Much attention has focused upon the owners themselves. The co-ethnic labour that such employers usually rely upon has often been treated as unproblematic. This paper aims to illuminate the experiences of workers in ethnic minority owned restaurants. In particular, the widely held view that working in a co-ethnic firm serves …
Ethnic Minority Enterprise in its Urban Context
The embeddedness of ethnic minority business activity is widely accepted, as researchers increasingly eschew ethno-culturalist explanations of the phenomenon. However, despite the importance of urban processes, studies of ethnic minority enterprise are often 'spaceless'. This article uses Rekers and van Kempen's urban spatial framework to assess the experiences of South Asian owners in Birmingham's restaurant industry. One taken-for-granted but e…
Scenes from Gezi Park
This paper analyses the 2013 Gezi Park movement in Turkey that began with localised resistance to government plans to raze a historical public park in central Istanbul. The movement swiftly escalated into a national outcry that manifested itself in wider criticism of AKP (Justice and Development Party) policy. How did various protestors in Gezi Park comprehend and respond to the concerns raised by the movement? How did a local event trigger such …
Pushed to the edge
This article reports on the results of a mixed-methods survey of 152 self-selecting Muslim university students sampled across a range of higher education institutions across the UK in late 2019. The study explores perceptions of the impact of the new Prevent Duty among UK Muslim students, especially concerning questions of self-censorship and self-silencing for fear of referral to Channel (a multi-agency board tasked with early-state support). Be…
Islamophobia as racialised biopolitics in the United Kingdom
This article provides a Foucauldian perspective on the racialised biopolitics of Islamophobia in the global north. It is argued that a pervasive, wide-ranging racialised logos is being used to undermine the citizenship potential of Muslim groups now forming an active presence in urban concentrations across wide political and cultural spaces. The negative characterisations of Muslim minority groups in the global north focus on various parameters o…
Media Capital and the Representation of South Asian Muslims in the British Press
2001). Media Capital and the Representation of South Asian Muslims in the British Press: An Ideological Analysis. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 245-257
The symbiotic relationship between Islamophobia and radicalisation
This article analyses the conditions of Islamophobia and radicalisation, and the nature of the symbiotic relationship between them. There is an exploration of the identity crises facing young Muslims in relation to endogenous factors, the role and function of various forms of structural and cultural Islamophobia as exogenous concerns and how these intersect in the context of contemporary multicultural societies, namely in Britain. The characteris…
The Impact of Religio-cultural Norms and Values on the Education of Young South Asian Women
This paper is a discussion of how the educational attitudes, perspectives and experiences of young South Asian women in schools and colleges in the city of Birmingham, UK, are affected by domestic religio-cultural norms and values. Taking into consideration social class and the different types of schools they attend, young South Asian women were interviewed and surveyed to ascertain the effects of religion and culture upon education. The empirica…
British South Asians and pathways into selective schooling
This article is a theoretical and empirical study of the ways in which different South Asian groups, Bangladeshi, Indian, and Pakistani, achieve entry into the selective education system, taking into consideration the factors of social class, ethnicity and culture. In‐depth interviews with 42 South Asian school pupils from three single‐sex selective schools (one independent and two grammar), 47 South Asian school pupils from three secondary moder…
The Home and the School in the Educational Achievements of South Asians
This article explores how South Asian parents and teachers affect the educational achievements of South Asians in schools and colleges in the city of Birmingham, England. The research undertaken for this study was principally qualitative, based on in-depth interviews with and surveys of pupils, students and parents from different schools and colleges across the city. Respondents were asked to discuss the importance of the home and the school for …
Making the link
The ‘family’ is frequently mentioned in assessments of the apparent distinctiveness of ethnic minority enterprise. Family involvement can account for the ‘success’ of some ethnic groups, and low rates of small business activity in others. Implicitly, such debates are recognition of the importance of the nature of the household and small business. However, few studies in Britain make explicit the link between household dynamics and ethnic minority…
Perceptions of the processes of radicalisation and de-radicalisation among British South Asian Muslims in a post-industrial city
This paper presents the findings of a qualitative study exploring the perceptions of British South Asian Muslims in relation to the pathways towards radicalisation and the challenges of community leadership in relation to de-radicalisation. The study is based on in-depth interviews, using an ethnographic methodological framework, with a purposive sample of 30 Muslim men and women, including senior political figures, community leaders, religious f…
The ‘Dudley Mosque Project’
Recent Developments to British Multicultural Theory, Policy and Practice
Since the early 1970s, there have been highly sophisticated arguments and conceptual discussions put forward in relation to how Western liberal democracies might wish to manage their diverse ethnic minority populations. It is apparent, however, that in the current climate, the important principles of unity and diversity are insufficient to challenge differing forms of ethnic, racial, and religious inequality. This paper argues that because of its…
You cannot talk about academic freedom in such an oppressive environment’
In January 2016, 1128 predominantly Turkish intellectuals signed an Academics for Peace petition to draw attention to the conflict in southeastern Turkey. Their actions were met with outcry from the government, accusing the signatories of disloyalty to the state, even treason. This paper is an analysis of the responses of 60 of these scholars to a questionnaire sent to the entire Academics for Peace email list. Respondents, including 58 signatori…
Ethno-Religious Identities and Islamic Political Radicalism in the UK
This paper is a case study of the ethno-cultural identity politics that young Muslim men since the events of 9/11 and 7/7 are found to be engaging with, using a life-history methodology and the experiences of Moazzam Begg as a lens through which to view a wider phenomenon. It is argued that the issues, debates and policy concerns impacting on the question of Islamic political radicalism in Britain, namely inequality, integration, multiculturalism…
Protecting the people
The article contributes to a comparative understanding of populism, securitization, and ontological security by demonstrating how masculinity plays a central role in invocations of insecurity. We argue that masculinity, understood as a set of gendered relations that helps in forging affective communities between populist leaders, the people, and objects of securitization, can provide useful insights into the political practice of populism and sec…
Intersectional activism
This article investigates the efforts of influential Turkish Muslim civil society actors to amplify the voices of Muslim women in the Netherlands. Through interviews, the research uncovers the impacts of Islamophobia and securitization policies on the classification of Muslim women as either threats or victims. The study captures participants' responses challenging intersectional discrimination based on gender, religion, and race, employing the n…
We are already 1-0 behind”
This article presents the findings of an explanatory study into the perceptions of Dutch Muslims in The Hague concerning pre-emptive counter-extremism and de-radicalisation policies. Based on 15 in-depth interviews with established Muslim community figures and a theoretical survey of 102 respondents from 8 mosques, it was found that pre-emptive interventions were perceived unfavourably due to their inherent misconceptualization of the Muslim live…
The “Trojan Horse” Plot and the Fear of Muslim Power in British State Schools
In 2014, an alleged “Trojan Horse” plot to Islamise education in a number of schools attended predominantly by diverse Muslim pupils in the inner city wards of Birmingham raised considerable questions. Ofsted investigations of 21 schools explored these concerns at the behest of the then Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove MP. At the head of this so-called plot, a certain Tahir Alam, once a darling of New Labour’s policies on British Mu…
An Analysis of Race Equality Policy and Practice in the City of Birmingham, UK
The city of Birmingham is home to a significant number of ethnic minorities. In 2004 it is estimated that almost a third of the city's one million people are of ethnic minority origin. How the city's institutions have responded to race equality issues is analysed in the light of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Report (1999) and the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000. Based on secondary analysis of documentary evidence and interviews with key actors…
Implementing ‘Prevent’ in countering violent extremism in the UK
This article attempts to situate the UK ‘Prevent’ policy debate in the wider framework of the global Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) paradigm that emerged in late 2015. It is argued that the omission of a nuanced approach to the social, cultural, economic and political characteristics of the radicalised, there is a tendency to introduce blanket measures that inadvertently and indirectly lead to harm. Moreover, though ‘Prevent’ has been the out…
Ethnic minority business in comparative perspective
British research on ethnic minority entrepreneurship has often endeavoured to account for the prominence or otherwise of ethnic minority groups in business. This trend towards explicating the diversity of ethnic minorities in business has intensified with recent attention to apparently significant variations within the South Asian community itself. But how 'different' is ethnic minority business activity from the wider small firm population? This…
Media Capital and the Representation of South Asian Muslims in the British Press
2001). Media Capital and the Representation of South Asian Muslims in the British Press: An Ideological Analysis. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 245-257
Making the link
The ‘family’ is frequently mentioned in assessments of the apparent distinctiveness of ethnic minority enterprise. Family involvement can account for the ‘success’ of some ethnic groups, and low rates of small business activity in others. Implicitly, such debates are recognition of the importance of the nature of the household and small business. However, few studies in Britain make explicit the link between household dynamics and ethnic minority…
Apprentice Entrepreneurs'? Ethnic Minority Workers in the Independent Restaurant Sector
Ethnic minority business activity has often been presented as a vehicle for `upward mobility' for owners and workers alike. Much attention has focused upon the owners themselves. The co-ethnic labour that such employers usually rely upon has often been treated as unproblematic. This paper aims to illuminate the experiences of workers in ethnic minority owned restaurants. In particular, the widely held view that working in a co-ethnic firm serves …
The Home and the School in the Educational Achievements of South Asians
This article explores how South Asian parents and teachers affect the educational achievements of South Asians in schools and colleges in the city of Birmingham, England. The research undertaken for this study was principally qualitative, based on in-depth interviews with and surveys of pupils, students and parents from different schools and colleges across the city. Respondents were asked to discuss the importance of the home and the school for …
Ethnic Minority Enterprise in its Urban Context
The embeddedness of ethnic minority business activity is widely accepted, as researchers increasingly eschew ethno-culturalist explanations of the phenomenon. However, despite the importance of urban processes, studies of ethnic minority enterprise are often 'spaceless'. This article uses Rekers and van Kempen's urban spatial framework to assess the experiences of South Asian owners in Birmingham's restaurant industry. One taken-for-granted but e…
The Impact of Religio-cultural Norms and Values on the Education of Young South Asian Women
This paper is a discussion of how the educational attitudes, perspectives and experiences of young South Asian women in schools and colleges in the city of Birmingham, UK, are affected by domestic religio-cultural norms and values. Taking into consideration social class and the different types of schools they attend, young South Asian women were interviewed and surveyed to ascertain the effects of religion and culture upon education. The empirica…
The Education of British South Asians
After 9/11
In light of the events of 9/11 and the subsequent actions and reactions on the part of nation-states in the West and “terrorists” in the East, this paper discusses the concepts of Islamophobia (political and media-manufactured) and multiculturalism in the British context. Rising Islamophobia, state actions, and media reactions to 9/11 have led to changing definitions of the “good multicultural society.” British Muslims are caught in a quagmire: T…
The Education of British South Asians
Muslim Britain
This edited collection is a cogent exploration of how the events of September 11 and the subsequent war on terror have impacted on the lived experiences of British South Asian Muslims in a number of important spheres, namely, religious and ethnic identity, citizenship, Islamophobia, gender and education, radicalism, media and political representation. The contributors to this volume are specialists in the fields of sociology, social geography, an…
An Analysis of Race Equality Policy and Practice in the City of Birmingham, UK
The city of Birmingham is home to a significant number of ethnic minorities. In 2004 it is estimated that almost a third of the city's one million people are of ethnic minority origin. How the city's institutions have responded to race equality issues is analysed in the light of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Report (1999) and the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000. Based on secondary analysis of documentary evidence and interviews with key actors…
Recent Developments to British Multicultural Theory, Policy and Practice
Since the early 1970s, there have been highly sophisticated arguments and conceptual discussions put forward in relation to how Western liberal democracies might wish to manage their diverse ethnic minority populations. It is apparent, however, that in the current climate, the important principles of unity and diversity are insufficient to challenge differing forms of ethnic, racial, and religious inequality. This paper argues that because of its…
A question of reflexivity in a qualitative study of South Asians in education
In a qualitative study of South Asians in education, methodological issues pertaining to the social interactions between the same-ethnicity researcher and researched are analysed and interpreted. Based on in-depth interviews with 89 South Asian school pupils and 25 South Asian parents, it was found that political ideology and shared ethnicity were a source of inspiration in how the same-ethnicity researcher generated answers to the research quest…
Immigration and Race Relations
Since the late 1950s John Rex has been at the forefront of British sociology and in particular the sociology of ‘race’ and ethnicity. His research and books have spawned debate and discussion in the fields of social and political theory, housing studies, education and the experiences of Muslim minorities. This volume charts the nature, direction and significance of John Rex’s work in the fields of urban sociology, ethnic relations and multicultur…
Islamic Political Radicalism
Analyses the sociological, anthropological, psychological and political causes and consequences of Islamic political radicalism in Europe Authors explore the motivations behind such radicalism, focusing on an array of different factors. These include economic and social alienation, political and cultural marginalisation, gender and masculinity, and psychological issues, both at an individual and community level. Other issues discussed are the sta…
Teaching the Study of Muslim Minorities in Higher Education in the United Kingdom
In this paper, I reflect on my experiences of teaching sociology of Islam atan elite British university: the University of Birmingham. As a trained economistwith postgraduate degrees in social science and sociology and as a formerWhitehall civil servant, my foray into the world of Islamic studies hasonly been recent. Indeed, it was the events relating to British Muslimminorities between 1999 and 2001 (namely, the arrests, trial, and sentencingin …
A theory of Islamic political radicalism in Britain
British Muslim Minorities Today
This essay explores the issues of multiculturalism, Islamism and the experiences of Muslim minorities in Western Europe and in Britain in the light of the events of 9/11 and 7 July London bombings. First, the experience of immigrants and minorities and the key historical and cultural debates in which the idea of Europe has emerged is contextualised. Second, the debate in relation to how multiculturalism in Western Europe is conceived and problema…
British South Asians and pathways into selective schooling
This article is a theoretical and empirical study of the ways in which different South Asian groups, Bangladeshi, Indian, and Pakistani, achieve entry into the selective education system, taking into consideration the factors of social class, ethnicity and culture. In‐depth interviews with 42 South Asian school pupils from three single‐sex selective schools (one independent and two grammar), 47 South Asian school pupils from three secondary moder…
Ethno-Religious Identities and Islamic Political Radicalism in the UK
This paper is a case study of the ethno-cultural identity politics that young Muslim men since the events of 9/11 and 7/7 are found to be engaging with, using a life-history methodology and the experiences of Moazzam Begg as a lens through which to view a wider phenomenon. It is argued that the issues, debates and policy concerns impacting on the question of Islamic political radicalism in Britain, namely inequality, integration, multiculturalism…
Muslim Minorities in Britain
This paper is a discussion of the experiences of British Muslim communities in the light of the events of 7/7. The social, economic and political positions of British Muslims have been important public policy and academic and popular discourse considerations since the focus on the Rushdie Affair of 1989 and the general rise of Islamophobia ever since. However, the events of 9/11, the impact of anti-terror legislation upon Muslim communities, and …
Geographies of Muslim Identities
Geographies of Muslim Identities is an interesting and useful collection of papers and articles on the subject of transnationalism, diaspora, gender, identity and space. Each of these fields could form the basis of a dedicated edited collection in its own right, but what Cara Aitchison et al. have tried to do is to put together a single collection around these themes. However, the final product is a hodgepodge of quite specific areas of thinking …
Educating Muslims
The ‘Dudley Mosque Project’
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