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Muslim Minorities and Citizenship: Authority, Communities and Islamic Law
Sean Oliver-Dee
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Description for Muslim Minorities and Citizenship: Authority, Communities and Islamic Law
Hardback. Engaging with both Muslim minority and government perspectives, this is important reading for scholars, students, commentators and policy-makers concerned with the question of Western engagement with its own minorities. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 221 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 440.
Issues of citizenship, identity and cohesion have rarely been as vital as they are today. Since the events of 9/11 and subsequent terrorist episodes in Bali, Madrid, London and elsewhere, focus in this area has centred primarily upon Muslim minority communities living in the West. Opinion polls of Muslim communities in Europe and publications from authors within those communities have shown that there is an energetic debate going on around what it means to be a Muslim and a citizen on this continent. Sean Oliver-Dee explores these questions of citizenship and loyalty from the point of view of Muslims living ... Read more
Issues of citizenship, identity and cohesion have rarely been as vital as they are today. Since the events of 9/11 and subsequent terrorist episodes in Bali, Madrid, London and elsewhere, focus in this area has centred primarily upon Muslim minority communities living in the West. Opinion polls of Muslim communities in Europe and publications from authors within those communities have shown that there is an energetic debate going on around what it means to be a Muslim and a citizen on this continent. Sean Oliver-Dee explores these questions of citizenship and loyalty from the point of view of Muslims living ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848853881
SKU
V9781848853881
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99-10
About Sean Oliver-Dee
Sean Oliver-Dee is Associate Researcher of Inter-Religious Affairs at the Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Representative to the EU and Associate Research Fellow at the London School of Theology. He is also a consultant on religio-political issues for a number of think-tanks, NGOs and government departments in the UK and overseas. His PhD was published as The Caliphate Question: ... Read more
Reviews for Muslim Minorities and Citizenship: Authority, Communities and Islamic Law
Issues of minority status and loyalty to the state have attracted particular interest in recent decades in the context of growing Islamic communities in the West. This book makes a significant contribution to understanding this most sensitive of topics by drawing on the past to engage with the present. By shaping the study around the issue of citizenship in Britain ... Read more