Islam in the Anglosphere
Ihsan Yilmaz
Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Sonstiges
Beschreibung
Using semi-structured interviews with 122 young Muslims in Australia, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (USA) from diverse ethnic backgrounds, this book investigates the lived reality of young Muslims from their own perspectives. It explores their ideas of key Islamic and secular issues, their struggles, world views, triumphs, how the stigmatized group negotiates their identity in these three English language speaking Western countries, 20 years after 9/11. The key aspect of this book is to transcend binaries and reductionisms by exploring what Muslims actually think and say rather than intellectual articulations on them. The book presents a very detailed account of these young Muslims in the Anglophone West on their political beliefs, their knowledge and understanding of sharia law, their interest and participation in local and transnational political activism, their positive and negative feelings about their own communities, and indeed how they define theircommunity.
Kundenbewertungen
Agency of young Muslims, Islamophobia in the West, Orientalism and Muslims, Media and prejudice, Transnational nationalism, Identity and religion, Citizenship and rights, Muslims in the West, Migration and diasporas, Global citizenship, Muslim social capital