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The Contemporary British Mosque

Author : Abdul-Azim Ahmed
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350258997
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary British Mosque written by Abdul-Azim Ahmed and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Repositioning mosques as social, cultural and political spaces, this book provides new insights on key contemporary debates, the religious identity of Britain, secularisation, the far-right and terrorism, and gender equality. Exploring the story of the British mosque, from house conversions to grand works of architecture, and the role they play in public life, Abdul-Azim Ahmed details the establishment of early mosques during the era of Empire, and the rapid growth in the years following the Second World War. Ahmed takes a sociological approach to this study, drawing on fieldwork and ethnographic case-studies, alongside reviews of databases and historical documents to provide perspectives on the British mosque from the congregants themselves. The Muslim congregation, a poorly understood and often overlooked dimension of religion in Britain, is examined, and issues of diversity, denomination, sacredness, and society are explored.

The British Mosque

Author : Shahed Saleem
Publisher : Historic England Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781848020764
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The British Mosque written by Shahed Saleem and published by Historic England Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first overview of Muslim architecture in Britain, from the earliest examples in the late 19th century, to mosques being built today. Key architectural stages are identified and explained alongside the social history of Muslim settlement and growth. The analysis focuses on the way in which the mosque as a new cultural and architectural form has benefitted into the existing urban fabric of Britain’s towns and cities, and how this new building type has then impacted its urban landscape, socially, culturally and architecturally.The British Mosque is an architectural as well as a social history, and describes the evolution of Britain’s Muslim communities through the buildings they have built. By presenting this architectural narrative for the first time, the book opens up a new field of British Islamic Architecture. The architectural story charts a course from the earliest mosques formed through the conversion of houses, to other large scale conversions through to purpose built mosques and with these the emergence of an Islamic architectural expression in Britain.As the mosque is not solely considered in terms of its architectural style, but also from its social history and cultural meaning, this book provides an observation into the character of British Muslim life and practice and how these have been embodied through its buildings. The future of Islamic architecture in Britain is also considered, and how this will be affected by the growing cultural and social diversification of Britain’s Muslim communities.

This Green and Pleasant Land

Author : Ayisha Malik
Publisher : Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1785767534
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book This Green and Pleasant Land written by Ayisha Malik and published by Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE DIVERSE BOOK AWARDS 'Tender, challenging and as warm as it was razor-sharp' Beth O'Leary 'If you've read Joanna Cannon I think you'll love this' Simon Savidge 'A sublimely witty and touching story' Jonathan Coe The standout new novel by acclaimed author Ayisha Malik - perfect for fans of David Nicholls and Candice Carty-Williams. In the sleepy village of Babel's End, trouble is brewing. Bilal Hasham is having a mid-life crisis. His mother has just died, and he finds peace lying in a grave he's dug in the garden. His elderly Auntie Rukhsana has come to live with him, and forged an unlikely friendship with village busybody, Shelley Hawking. His wife Mariam is distant and distracted, and his stepson Haaris is spending more time with his real father. Bilal's mother's dying wish was to build a mosque in Babel's End, but when Shelley gets wind of this scheme, she unleashes the forces of hell. Will Bilal's mosque project bring his family and his beloved village together again, or drive them apart? Warm, wise and laugh-out-loud funny, This Green and Pleasant Land is a life-affirming look at love, faith and the meaning of home.

Sufis, Salafis and Islamists

Author : Sadek Hamid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857727109
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Sufis, Salafis and Islamists written by Sadek Hamid and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Muslim activism has evolved constantly in recent decades. What have been its main groups and how do their leaders compete to attract followers? Which social and religious ideas from abroad are most influential? In this groundbreaking study, Sadek Hamid traces the evolution of Sufi, Salafi and Islamist activist groups in Britain, including The Young Muslims UK, Hizb ut-Tahrir, the Salafi JIMAS organisation and Traditional Islam Network. With reference to second-generation British Muslims especially, he explains how these groups gain and lose support, embrace and reject foreign ideologies, and succeed and fail to provide youth with compelling models of British Muslim identity. Analyzing historical and firsthand community research, Hamid gives a compelling account of the complexity that underlies reductionist media narratives of Islamic activism in Britain.

Among the Mosques

Author : Ed Husain
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1526618656
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Among the Mosques written by Ed Husain and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Islam is the fastest-growing faith community in Britain. Domes and minarets are redefining the skylines of towns and cities as mosques become an increasingly prominent feature. Yet while Britain has prided itself on being a global home of cosmopolitanism and modern civilisation, its deep-rooted relationship with Islam, unique in history, is complex, threatened by rising hostility and hatred, intolerance and ignorance. There is much media debate about embracing diversity in our communities, but what does integration look like on the ground, in places like Dewsbury, Glasgow, Belfast and London? How are Muslims, young and old, reconciling progressive values, of gender equality, individualism, the rule of law and free speech - with literalist interpretations of their faith? And how is this tension, away from the public gaze, unfolding inside mosques today? Ed Husain takes his search for answers into the heart of Britain's Muslim communities. Travelling the length and breadth of the country, Husain joins men and women in their prayers, conversations, meals, plans, pains, joys, triumphs and adversities. He tells their stories here in an open and honest account that brings the daily reality of British Muslim life sharply into focus, a struggle of identity and belonging, caught between tradition and modernity, East and West, revelation and reason"--Publisher's description

The White Mosque

Author : Sofia Samatar
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1646220986
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book The White Mosque written by Sofia Samatar and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography & Memoir (Midland Authors Book Award) Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award A historical tapestry of border-crossing travelers, of students, wanderers, martyrs and invaders, The White Mosque is a memoiristic, prismatic record of a journey through Uzbekistan and of the strange shifts, encounters, and accidents that combine to create an identity In the late nineteenth century, a group of German-speaking Mennonites traveled from Russia into Central Asia, where their charismatic leader predicted Christ would return. Over a century later, Sofia Samatar joins a tour following their path, fascinated not by the hardships of their journey, but by its aftermath: the establishment of a small Christian village in the Muslim Khanate of Khiva. Named Ak Metchet, “The White Mosque,” after the Mennonites’ whitewashed church, the village lasted for fifty years. In pursuit of this curious history, Samatar discovers a variety of characters whose lives intersect around the ancient Silk Road, from a fifteenth-century astronomer-king, to an intrepid Swiss woman traveler of the 1930s, to the first Uzbek photographer, and explores such topics as Central Asian cinema, Mennonite martyrs, and Samatar’s own complex upbringing as the daughter of a Swiss-Mennonite and a Somali-Muslim, raised as a Mennonite of color in America. A secular pilgrimage to a lost village and a near-forgotten history, The White Mosque traces the porous and ever-expanding borders of identity, asking: How do we enter the stories of others? And how, out of the tissue of life, with its weird incidents, buried archives, and startling connections, does a person construct a self?

Muslims in Britain

Author : Peter Hopkins
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748631232
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Muslims in Britain written by Peter Hopkins and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the events of 11th September 2001 in the USA, and more especially, the bombings on the London underground on 7th July 2005 and the incident at Glasgow Airport on 30th June 2007, an increasing amount of public attention has been focused upon Muslims in Britain. Against the backdrop of this debate, this book sets out a series of innovative insights into the everyday lives of Muslims living in contemporary Britain, in an attempt to move beyond prevalent stereotypes concerning what it means to be 'Muslim'. Combining original empirical research with theoretical interventions, this collection offers a range of reflections on how Muslims in Britain negotiate their everyday lives, manage experiences of racism and exclusion, and develop local networks and global connections. The authors explore a broad range of themes including gender relations; educational and economic issues; migration and mobility; religion and politics; racism and Islamophobia; and the construction and contestation of Muslim identities. Threaded through the treatment of these themes is a unifying concern with the ways in which geography matters to how Muslims negotiate their daily experiences as well as their racialised, gendered and religious identities. Above all, attention is focused upon the role of the home and local community, the influence of the economy and the nation, and the power of transnational connections and mobilities in the everyday lives of Muslims in Britain. Includes contributions from: Louise Archer, Yahya Birt, Sophie Bowlby, Claire Dwyer, Richard Gale, Peter Hopkins, Lily Kong, Sally Lloyd-Evans, Sean McLoughlin, Sharmina Mawani, Tariq Modood, Anjoom Mukadam, Caroline Nagel, Deborah Phillips, Bindi Shah, and Lynn Staeheli

The beauties of modern British poetry, systematically arranged by D. Grant

Author : David Grant (of Aberdeen)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The beauties of modern British poetry, systematically arranged by D. Grant written by David Grant (of Aberdeen) and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Islamophobia in Britain

Author : Leonie B. Jackson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319583506
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Islamophobia in Britain written by Leonie B. Jackson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with the ideology of Islamophobia as a cultural racism, and argues that in order to understand its prevalence we must focus not only on what Islamophobia is, but also why diversely situated individuals and groups choose to employ its narratives and tropes. Since 2001, Muslims in Britain have been constructed as the nation’s significant ‘other’ – an internal and external enemy that threatened both social cohesion and national security. Through a consideration of a number of pertinent contemporary issues, including no-mosque campaigns, the rise of anti-Islamist social movements and the problematisation of Muslim culture, this book offers a new understanding of Islamophobia as a form of Eurocentric spatial dominance, in which those identified as Western receive a better social, economic and political ‘racial contract’, and seek to defend these privileges against real and imagined Muslim demands.

Muslims in Britain

Author : Sophie Gilliat-Ray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052153688X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Muslims in Britain written by Sophie Gilliat-Ray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon sociology, history, anthropology, and politics, this book provides an informed understanding of the daily lives of British Muslims.

British Muslims

Author : Philip Lewis
Publisher : EUP
ISBN 13 : 9781474432764
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book British Muslims written by Philip Lewis and published by EUP. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the thinking of a new generation of Muslims as it impacts and shapes the burgeoning field of Muslim women's activism, the formation of religious leaders, what is to count as 'Muslim politics', the dynamics of de-radicalisation and what has been dubbed the 'New Muslim Cool' in music, fashion and culture.

Women in the Mosque

Author : Marion Holmes Katz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231537875
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Women in the Mosque written by Marion Holmes Katz and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juxtaposing Muslim scholars' debates over women's attendance in mosques with historical descriptions of women's activities within Middle Eastern and North African mosques, Marion Holmes Katz shows how over the centuries legal scholars' arguments have often reacted to rather than dictated Muslim women's behavior. Tracing Sunni legal positions on women in mosques from the second century of the Islamic calendar to the modern period, Katz connects shifts in scholarly terminology and argumentation to changing constructions of gender. Over time, assumptions about women's changing behavior through the lifecycle gave way to a global preoccupation with sexual temptation, which then became the central rationale for limits on women's mosque access. At the same time, travel narratives, biographical dictionaries, and religious polemics suggest that women's usage of mosque space often diverged in both timing and content from the ritual models constructed by scholars. Katz demonstrates both the concrete social and political implications of Islamic legal discourse and the autonomy of women's mosque-based activities. She also examines women's mosque access as a trope in Western travelers' narratives and the evolving significance of women's mosque attendance among different Islamic currents in the twentieth century.

Islamic Architecture on the Move

Author : Christiane J. Gruber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783206391
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Islamic Architecture on the Move written by Christiane J. Gruber and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even a casual observer can spy traces of Islamic architecture and design on buildings all over the world, a reminder that artistic traditions and visual culture have never been limited to their region or country of origin, but rather are highly diffusible. This book brings together scholars from architectural studies, design, art history, and other fields to challenge and expand concepts of Islamic architecture. Ranging from eighteenth-century Ottoman tents to manifestations of Islamic motifs in 1960s Hawaii, this richly illustrated volume raises key questions about Islamic architecture, and, more broadly, about how we can rethink our understanding of material, artistic, and cultural mobility in the modern world.

Islam, Causality, and Freedom

Author : Özgür Koca
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108496342
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Islam, Causality, and Freedom written by Özgür Koca and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of Islamic accounts of causality and freedom from the medieval to the modern era and their contemporary relevance.

Latino and Muslim in America

Author : Harold D. Morales
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190852607
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Latino and Muslim in America written by Harold D. Morales and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience and mediation of race-religion -- The first wave: from Islam in Spain to the Alianza in New York -- The second wave: Spanish dawah to women, online and in Los Angeles -- Reversion stories: the form, content, and dissemination of a logic of return -- The 9/11 factor: Latino Muslims in the news -- Radicals: Latino Muslim hip hop and the "clash of civilizations thing"--The third wave: consolidations, reconfigurations and the 2016 news cycle

The Performance of Multilingual and ‘Ultralingual’ Devotional Practices by Young British Muslims

Author : Andrey Rosowsky
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1800411391
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Performance of Multilingual and ‘Ultralingual’ Devotional Practices by Young British Muslims written by Andrey Rosowsky and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the wide range of multilingual devotional performances engaged in by young Muslims in the UK today. It evaluates the contemporary mosque school in the UK and contrasts this with practices from the past and with prevailing discourses (both political and other) which suggest that such institutions are problematic. It also challenges the highly-politicised and mediatised discourse which suggests that linguistic diversity presents a threat to the privileging of monolingualism in the UK. Finally, it argues for the usefulness of the term ‘ultralingual’ when analysing the multilingual devotional language performances of these young people.

Follow Me, Akhi

Author : Hussein Kesvani
Publisher : Hurst & Company
ISBN 13 : 1787381250
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Follow Me, Akhi written by Hussein Kesvani and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2019 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be Muslim in Britain today? If the media is anything to go by, it has something to do with mosques, community leaders, whether you wear a veil, and what your views on religious extremists are. But as all our lives become increasingly entwined with our online presence, British Muslims are taking to social media to carve their own narratives and tell their own stories, challenging stereotypes along the way. Follow Me, Akhi explores how young Muslims in Britain are using the internet to determine their own religious identity, both within their communities and as part of the country they live in. Entering a world of Muslim dating apps, social media influencers, online preachers, and LGBTQ and ex-Muslim groups, journalist Hussein Kesvani explores how British Islam has evolved into a multi-dimensional cultural identity that goes well beyond the confines of the mosque. He shows how a new generation of Muslims who have grown up in the internet age use blogs, vlogging, and tweets to define their religion on their terms -- something that could change the course of 'British Islam' forever.