Muslims in New Zealand
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6085612 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William Shepard (0000-0002-5724-1193) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 211-232 |
| Publication date | 1996-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0266-6952 • E-ISSN: 1469-9591 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13602009608716339 |
| OpenAlex | W2040415263 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 1 |
Muslims in New Zealand may be viewed from at least two angles. Viewed from New Zealand, they represent a part of the recent immigration that is beginning to change the face of this society from its Maori and Anglo-Celtic past. They are a relatively small part of this movement, but are distinctive and high-profile for various reasons. Viewed from the world outside, they are one of the smallest and most far-flung tentacles of the modern Muslim diaspora, which has brought several million Muslims to live as minorities in Western countries, thus inaugurating a different relationship between Muslims and the West from that which had existed before. These Western countries can no longer quite be dar al harb (the Abode of War), as the old Islamic tradition had it, since Muslims have come to them voluntarily in search of a better life, but they are certainly not dar al Islam (the Abode of Islam), since Muslims are minorities in them and Western life-styles are at variance with Muslim life-styles in many ways. The New Zealand Muslim community is even smaller than most other Muslim diaspora communities, both in absolute numbers—about 40,000—and as a percentage of the population—about one percent. New Zealand has in fact hosted Muslim immigrants for more than a hundred years, although little is known of the very first ones. Mainly from East and South Asia, as far as is known, they were very few in numbers, individuals rather than family groups, miners and possibly sailors arriving on these shores, deciding to stay for a time or permanently. At first hardly noticed, there are only sparse references to their presence in historic records
Ancient history · Diaspora · Face (sociological concept · Genealogy · Geography · Immigration · Islam · Political science · Population · Social science · Sociology · Demography · Education and Islamic Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2000 - 2022 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |