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Islamic Britain: Religion, Politics and Identity Among British Muslims (Paperback)

by Philip Lewis (Author) "In 1985 an Urdu poster displayed in shop windows throughout Britain invited devotees of a deceased Muslim mystic to a celebration held in his honour..." (more)

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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd; New edition edition (29 Mar 2002)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1860648150
ISBN-13: 978-1860648151
Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.2 x 2 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 612,300 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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From the 1980s Britain's large Muslim community, a long established but little noticed group, suddenly became visible as controversies involving the education and dress of Muslim schoolgirls, the Rushdie affair and the Gulf War excited huge media interest. Caricatures and misconceptions began to spread and, with political Islam on the march in many Middle Eastern countries, fears of British Muslims becoming a bridgehead in the West for the establishment of an Islamic theocracy began to loom in the popular imagination. How do British Muslims really think about themselves, about their religion and their politics? What dilemmas do they face as they give up the "myth of return" that sustained first-generation immigrants and struggle to define a British Islam? In this important book, the first major study of British Muslims, Philip Lewis deals with the reality behind distorted media images through a rich, first-hand account of the Muslim community in Bradford - the city which became the epicentre of British Muslim anger and resistance to "The Satanic Verses".

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In 1985 an Urdu poster displayed in shop windows throughout Britain invited devotees of a deceased Muslim mystic to a celebration held in his honour in Britain's 'Islamabad' or 'city of Islam'. Read the first page

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3.0 out of 5 stars Bradistan, 18 May 2006

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This book, written in 1994, is now somewhat dated but it gives a very comprehensive survey of the history and diversity of Islam in Bradford. As such it is a fine resource on Muslims from the Indian sub-continent resident in Britain, but it really should have been called Islamic Bradford. The Muslim communities in Bradford are described showing their great diversity and different approaches to life in England. . They all differ from the Wahhabism of the Saudis. They are not usually in agreement with fatwas from Iran.There is no one Muslim community except perhaps when they perceive their faith to have been slighted. Insulting Mohammed is a greater sin than blasphemy. if public reaction is any measure. The author, specialist in comparative religion writes with a deep knowledge of his subject and with sympathy for it. An updated edition is required, especially post 9/11 but this is a good resource on Islam in England.

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