British Muslims by Philip Lewis

British Muslims by Philip Lewis

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How is the new generation of British Muslims navigating relations across three distinct religious and social worlds? This book looks at how they are balancing expectations from traditional Islam imported from their ancestral homeland, expressions of Islam drawn from across the global Muslim community the Ummah and from Britain itself.

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British Muslims by Philip Lewis

How is the new generation of British Muslims navigating relations across three distinct religious and social worlds? This book looks at how they are balancing expectations from traditional Islam imported from their ancestral homeland, expressions of Islam drawn from across the global Muslim community the Ummah and from Britain itself.
"A timely antidote to the, arguably, twisted characterisation and popular perception of British Muslims in circulation" -- Professor Humayn Ansari, Royal Holloway
Philip Lewis is the author of Young, British and Muslim (2007). Sadek Hamid is a Senior Researcher at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Sufis, Salafis and Islamists: The Contested Ground of British Islamic Activism (2016).
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ISBN 13 9781474432764
ISBN 10 147443276X
Title British Muslims
Author Philip Lewis
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Year published 2018-06-30
Number of pages 264
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.