Britain's first Muslims
Subtitle: portrait of an Arab community
By: Fred Halliday
Edition: New pbk. ed.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781848852990
Subjects: Social conditions; Muslims; Yemenis; Ethnic relations; History
Description: Fear of the terrorist threat provoked by radical Islam has generated heated debates on multiculturalism & the integration of Muslim migrant communities in Britain. Yet little is known about Britain's first Muslims, the Yemenis. Fred Halliday's research provides a case study for understanding the dynamics of immigrant cultures.
Notes: "First published in hardback in 1992 as Arabs in exile"--T.p. verso.