Muslim Identity Politics

ISBN: 9781838602048 出版年：2018 页码：350 Khadijah Elshayyal Bloomsbury Publishing

The surge in divisive and far-right politics and growing Islamophobia in Britain pose new challenges for Muslim advocacy organisations. British Muslim activism has taken centre stage in the public sphere as a result. Yet for over fifty years Muslim advocacy grouto preserve religious identity, lobby the state and provide concerted responses to the political establishment.This is the first book to chart critically the national and global factors influencing the political mobilisation of British Muslim activists as Muslims. Khadijah Elshayyal traces the changes of thought, direction and method within Muslim identity politics after 1960, noting key organisations and turning poinRushdie Affair, the 9/11 attacks, the 7/7 bombings and the current conflict in Syria. Tthat the Rushdie Affair prompted new debate around the subject of freedom of expression, which has continued to be a point of contentiProviding a history of the interaction between Muslim advocacy groups and the state, and the impact of state policy on Muslim communities, Muslims Identity Politics shows thcitizens continue to experience an `equality gap' and recommends where transformation and progress can be made. Based on primary sources and in-depth interviews, this book is a vital resource for government officials, policy-makers and researchers interested in multiculturalism, Islamophobia and security issues in Britain.