Islam Books

New and Published Books

1. Muslims in Britain

   Making Social and Political Space

   Edited by Waqar Ahmad, Ziauddin Sardar

   The management of social, religious and ethnic diversity is a key social policy concern in Britain, and Muslims in particular have become a focus of attention in recent years. This timely and topical volume examines the position of Muslims in Britain and how they are changing and making social,...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
2. Muslim Women and Sport

   Edited by Tansin Benn, Gertrud Pfister, Haifaa Jawad

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   Examining the global experiences, challenges and achievements of Muslim women participating in physical activities and sport, this important new study makes a profound contribution to our understanding of both contemporary Islam and the complexity and diversity of women’s lives in the modern world....

   Published February 27th 2012 by Routledge
3. Islamophobia in the West

   Measuring and Explaining Individual Attitudes

   Edited by Marc Helbling

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Since the late 1980s, growing migration from countries with a Muslim cultural background, and increasing Islamic fundamentalism related to terrorist attacks in Western Europe and the US, have created a new research field investigating the way states and ordinary citizens react to these new...

   Published February 15th 2012 by Routledge
4. Muslims in 21st Century Europe

   Structural and Cultural Perspectives

   Edited by Anna Triandafyllidou

   Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

   Muslims in 21st Century Europe explores the interaction between native majorities and Muslim minorities in various European countries with a view to highlighting different paths of integration of immigrant and native Muslims. Starting with a critical overview of the institutionalisation of Islam...

   Published February 5th 2012 by Routledge
5. Methods and Contexts in the Study of Muslim Minorities

   Visible and Invisible Muslims

   Edited by Nadia Jeldtoft, Jørgen Nielsen

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   In the past decade Muslims in Europe have been the subject of heated debates on the place and role of religion in the public space. Research into the issues involved has often used visible and formalised expressions of Muslim religiosity as its empirical point of departure. This book instead...

   Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge
6. Muslim Women Online

   Faith and Identity in Virtual Space

   By Anna Piela

   Series: Islamic Studies Series

   While issues surrounding Muslim women are common in the international media, the voices of Muslim women themselves are largely absent from media coverage and despite the rapidly increasing presence of Muslim women in online groups and discussions, it is still a relatively unexplored topic.This book...

   Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
7. Honour, Violence, Women and Islam

   Edited by Mohammad Mazher Idriss, Tahir Abbas

   Why are honour killings and honour-related violence (HRV) so important to understand? What do such crimes represent? And how does HRV fit in with Western views and perceptions of Islam? This distinctively comparative collection examines the concept of HRV against women in general and Muslim women...

   Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
8. Youth in the Former Soviet South

   Everyday Lives between Experimentation and Regulation

   Edited by Stefan Kirmse

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of youth, in all its diversity, in Muslim Central Asia and the Caucasus. It brings together a range of academic perspectives, including media studies, Islamic studies, the sociology of youth, and social anthropology. While most discussions of youth...

   Published July 5th 2011 by Routledge
9. Political Liberalism in Muslim Societies

   By Fevzi Bilgin

   Series: Islamic Studies Series

   Having survived the process of modernization and reasserted themselves in public life, religious traditions play an increasingly important public role in shaping and defining social institutions and interactions. This book examines Rawls’s theory of political liberalism in the context of ...

   Published January 20th 2011 by Routledge
10. Islam and Education

    Edited by Tahir Abbas

    Series: Major Themes in Education

    Volume I of this new Routledge collection focuses on theories of education. The gathered materials explore and analyse the impact of the classical Islamic period in history and the developments in education which have emanated from it. Volume II focuses on education in Eastern Europe and Muslim...

    Published November 23rd 2010 by Routledge