Title: Islamic Britain :
Authors: Lewis, Philip,
Date: 1994
Publisher: I.B. Tauris,
Physical description: 250 pages : maps ; 21 cm
Language: English
LC classification: D
Abstract: How do British Muslims think about themselves, 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? Written in the wake of a series of high-profile controversies including the Rushdie affair, the education and dress of Muslim schoolgirls, and allied policy during the Gulf War, this book challenges the sensationalist media images that have sometimes sought to portray British Muslims as a bridgehead in the West for the establishment of an Islamic theocracy.
Contents: 1. Britain's Muslim Communities -- 2. Islam in South Asia -- 3. Bradford: Britain's 'Islamabad' -- 4. Islamic Institutions in Bradford -- 5. The 'Ulama: The Making and Influence of a British Muslim Leadership -- 6. Beyond Sectarianism: The Role of the Council for Mosques -- 7. Looking Forward: Muslim Communities in the 1990s.
Subject headings (LCSH): Bradford (England : Unitary authority)--Social conditions.; Bradford (England)--Social conditions.; Bradford (West Yorkshire, England)--Social conditions.; Muslims--Cultural assimilation--Great Britain.; Muslims--England--Bradford (West Yorkshire)--Social conditions.; Muslims--England--Bradford--Social conditions.