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What do young British Muslims think about key issues in the contemporary world? This book will present, contextualize and analyze their views on topics such as their sense of identity, what they think of non-Muslims, how they view other Muslim societies, their ideas about politics and the role of Islam, and the role of women and the family.

Table of Contents

ACNOWLEDGEMENTS PREFACE CHAPTER 1: WHY ISLAM? CHAPTER 2: BEING MUSLIM CHAPTER 3: IDENTITY CHAPTER 4: POLITICS CHAPTER 5: GENERATIONAL CONFLICT CHAPTER 6: WOMEN CHAPTER 7: PROSPECTS A BRIEF PROFILE OF BRITAINS MUSLIMS NOTES ABOUT THE AUTHOR INDEX

About the Author

Anshuman A. Mondal is a Senior Lecturer in English at Brunel University (London, UK), and author of Nationalism and Post-Colonial Identity: Culture and Ideology in India and Egypt (2003) and Amitav Ghosh (2008). Of Muslim background, the author has published on Islamic affairs, and religion, faith and secularism in magazines such as Prospect, and for organizations such as the British Council. He was a keynote speaker of the British Concil's international seminar on Representing Islam, where he delivered a lecture on 'Islam and Multiculturalism'. He has appeared on various radio and television programmes to discuss issues related to Islam, including Newsnight, BBC World Service, Thinking Allowed on BBC Radio 4, and has appeared on 'The Week in Review' for the Islam Channel. In 2004, he was part of the British delegation to an event jointly organised by the governments of Britain, Denmark and Sweden called 'Reinventing Multiculturalism'.

Reviews

Mondal has travelled the country talking to a wide group of young Muslims from different class backgrounds, ethnicities and parts of the UK. Young British Muslim Voices is the result of these conversations, presenting a picture of ordinary young Muslim lives at the crossroads of an important historical moment. Covering a wide range of topical issues, including the wearing of the veil, the aftermath of 9/11 and 7/7, the relevance of the mosque and the importance of family, this book reveals how being a British Muslim means very different things to different people.
*The Asian News*