1st Edition
Muslims in Britain Making Social and Political Space
Muslims in Britain: Making Social and Political Space – An Introduction Ziauddin Sardar and Waqar I. U. Ahmad 1. Religion and Public Space Ziauddin Sardar 2. Britain and Britishness: Place, Belonging and Exclusion Rosemary Sales 3. Exploring Social Spaces of Muslims Lucinda Platt 4. Muslim Chaplains: Working at the Interface of ‘Public’ and ‘Private’ M. Mansur Ali and Sophie Gilliat-Ray 5. Young Muslims in London: Gendered Negotiations of Local, National and Transnational Places Louise Ryan 6. Multiculralism and the Gender Gap: The Visibility and Invisibility of Muslim Women in Britain Heidi Safia Mirza 7. Everyday Making and Civic Engagement amongst Muslim Women in Scotland Rahielah Ali and Peter Hopkins 8. Negotiating Faith and Politics: The Emergence of Muslim Consciousness in Britain Nasar Meer 9. ‘Creating a Society of Sheep’: British Muslim Elite on Mosques and Imams Waqar I. U. Ahmad
Biography
Waqar I. U. Ahmad is Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research and Enterprise at Middlesex University. Formerly Chief Social Scientist at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, he is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, a member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s Research and Innovation Advisory Committee, and a Fellow of the Muslim Institute.
Ziauddin Sardar is Professor of Law and Society at Middlesex University. Considered a pioneering writer on Islam and contemporary cultural issues, he is author of some fifty books, including most recently Reading the Qur’an (C. Hurst, 2011). A former columnist on the New Statesman, he is the co-editor of Critical Muslim.
