Political Muslims (eBook)

Understanding Youth Resistance in a Global Context

Tahir Abbas, Sadek Hamid (Herausgeber)

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2019
Syracuse University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8156-5430-8 (ISBN)

Infos

In the last few decades, the media, academics, and the general public have put considerable focus on Muslim culture and politics around the world. Specifically, the rising population of young Muslims has generated concerns about religious radicalism, Islamism, and conflicts in multicultural societies. However, few studies have been devoted to how a new generation of Muslims is reshaping society in positive ways. In Political Muslims, Abbas and Hamid provide a new perspective on Muslim youth, presenting them as agents of creative social change and as active participants in cultural and community organizations where resistance leads to negotiated change.

In a series of case studies that cross the globe, contributors capture the experiences of being young and Muslim in ten countries—the United States, Canada, Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, and Indonesia. They examine urban youth from various socioeconomic backgrounds, addressing issues that range from hybrid identities and student activism to the strategic use of music and social media. With diverse disciplinary and methodological approaches, Political Muslims gives readers a nuanced and authentic understanding of the everyday social, economic, and political realities of young people.

Autor

Tahir Abbas is a visiting senior fellow in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Contemporary Turkey in Conflict: Ethnicity, Islam, and Politics.

Sadek Hamid is a senior research assistant at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. He is the author of Sufis, Salafis, and Islamists: The Contested Ground of British Islamic Activism.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.2.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• Co-Autor: Sameera Ahmed, Asma Bala, Jürgen Endres, Chloe A. Gill-Khan, Carool Kersten, Shehnaz Haqqani, Aminul Hoque, Martijn de Koning, Hadiyah Muhammad, Idrisa Pandit, Yusuf Sarfati, Andreas Tunger-Zanetti, Munazza Yaqoob, Jasmin Zine
• Verlagsort: Syracuse
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Community Building • global youth • Middle East studies • music • Muslim societies • social change • Social Justice • Social Media
• ISBN-10: 0-8156-5430-8 / 0815654308
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-5430-8 / 9780815654308