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Muslims in Britain: Making Social and Political Space
Edited by Waqar Ahmad, Ziauddin Sardar
This book examines the social and political position of Muslims in Britain. Contributions from academics and policy makers explore issues of religion and politics, Britishness, governance, parallel lives, gender issues, religion in civic space, ethnicity, and inter ethnic and religious relations....
July 2011 | 978-0-415-59472-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Sufism and Society: Arrangements of the Mystical in the Muslim World
Edited by John Curry, Erik Ohlander
This book examines the relationship between Sufism in Society in the later medieval and early modern period. Thematically organised, the book includes case studies from the Middle Eastern, Turkic, Persian and South Asian regions. Contributions from a range of scholars intersect with the...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-78223-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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The Anthropology of Islam Reader
By Jens Kreinath
This Reader offers a comprehensive overview of the variety of methodological and theoretical approaches involved in, and relevant to, the emerging field of Anthropology of Islam. It pays particular attention to the study of ethnographic cases, featuring various forms of Islam as practiced in...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-78025-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Islamophobia in Western Europe and North America
Edited by Marc Helbling
For the first time this volume reunites leading researchers from various countries in Western Europe and North America who focus on survey data to investigate Islamophobia. While we already know quite a lot about how Islam finds its place in Western Europe and North America and how states react to...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-59444-8 | Hardback (Routledge)
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The Politics of Women's Integration: Voices from the Margins
By Leah Bassel
Does accommodating Islam violate women’s rights? This book breaks from scholarship that focuses upon whether accommodation of culture and religion harms women. Instead, it claims that this debate ignores the realities of the women at its heart. The book contrasts debates in France over the...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-60360-7 | Hardback (Routledge)
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The Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist Politics in the Middle East
By Mariz Tadros, Akram Habib
The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928, has become the world’s largest, most influential Islamist group. After eight decades surviving as a populist religious movement, banned from political participation in many Arab countries, in recent years it has moved towards becoming a political...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-46596-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Islam, Law and Identity
Edited by Marinos Diamantidis, Adam Gearey
Islam, Law and Identity brings together a range of Muslim and non Muslim scholars in order to focus on recent debates about the nature of sacred and secular law. Law is central to the complex ways in which different Muslim communities and institutions create and re-create their identities...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-56681-0 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)
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Routledge Handbook of Political Islam
Edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh
This Handbook provides a multidisciplinary overview of the phenomenon of political Islam, one of the key political movements of our time. Drawing on the expertise from some of the top scholars in the world it examines a range of topics, from aspects of Muslim integration in the West to questions of...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-48473-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Fundamentalism
Edited by David Lehmann, Humeira Iqtidar
The term fundamentalism carries a wide range of meanings, some of them pejorative. Here it is used to refer to what the French call ‘integrism’, meaning a religious code which encompasses and governs with its prescriptions the entire private and public life of individuals and the collectivity. The...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-55615-6 | Hardback (Routledge)