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British Muslim Converts Performing 'Authentic Muslimness'

Performing Islam, 2012
This article seeks to demonstrate that conversion to Islam is not only of theological significance, but is a social process whereby those who convert to Islam are deeply troubled by the idea that other Muslims may not consider them as 'authentic Muslims'.
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British Muslims

2008
A new method of education is required in Muslim communities to defuse the radicals. Such a method, based on Qur'anic teachings and espousal of bedrock Western values, can be effective.
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THE BRITISH MUSLIM BARON

Common Knowledge, 2017
This contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium on xenophilia documents and discusses the life and work of an important but neglected early British convert to Islam, the fifth Baron Headley, Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn (1855 – 1935), and also comments on the nature of the kind of xenophilia that can lead to conversion.
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Eventalizing the British Muslim

2014
In a further spin, or drawing the next side of the polyhedron that can be established by eventalizing the Rushdie affair, I will observe how the affair has been discursively embedded to point to public narratives of certain British cultural issues in recent years.
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British Muslim Perspectives on Multiculturalism

Theory, Culture & Society, 2007
We explore aspects of what it means to be a ‘moderate’ Muslim in Britain. Based on interviews with 21 Muslim intellectuals or those active in public or community debates (not all of whom were happy with the term ‘moderate Muslims’), we examine what these Muslims think about multiculturalism.
Modood, T, Ahmad, F
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Young, British and Muslim

2011
Sughra Ahmed is a Research Fellow in the Policy Research Centre of the Islamic Foundation. Her current area of research is exploring the migratory and settlement experiences of first generation Muslim women and men in the UK. As well as this she has worked with a number of organisations to consider the issues young people face whilst growing up in the ...
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British Muslims and Identity

2011
This chapter discusses issues surrounding identity and its implications for the Muslim communities in Britain today. Academic and Muslim perspectives are discussed within the context of examining whether a distinctive British Muslim identity exists, or can be developed, and whether such identity conflicts with the majority society’s common perceptions ...
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Islamophobia: A British Muslim Perspective

2018
The rise of radicalisation, the demonisation of Muslims by demagogues and segments of the British media and the immigration crisis in Europe are all factors that collude and contribute to heightened levels of Islamophobia in the United Kingdom (UK). Islamophobia has been associated with psychological distress in Muslims.
Ahmed Zakaria Hankir, Sayeeda Ali, Usman Siddique, Frederick R. Carrick, Rashid Zaman   +4 more
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MUSLIMS IN THE BRITISH MAINSTREAM

2019
This concluding chapter explains that, amidst the din generated by Islamophobia, it is not easy to recognise that there is an alternative narrative about the evolution of the three million-strong British Muslim community and its role in society today. The alternative account does not make many headlines for two main reasons.
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British Muslim Feminisms on Stage

Contemporary Theatre Review, 2018
British Muslims have encountered escalating scrutiny and hostility since the Rushdie crisis of 1988–89 and the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 and 7 July 2005,1 1.
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