Peter Hopkins is Professor of Social Geography in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, UK. He has conducted research about Muslims in Scotland for nearly twenty years now focusing on issues such as gender and generational relations, political participation and everyday racism. Previous co-edited books include Muslims in Britain (EUP) and Geographies of Muslim Identities (Ashgate).

A rich collection of papers that offers a fascinating audit of what it means to be a ‘Scottish Muslim,’ seen through the prism of the everyday lives, experiences, practices, and attitudes of Muslims in Scotland.

• 1. INTRODUCTION: Scotland’s Muslims: Early settlement, current context and research themes, Peter Hopkins; 2. HEALTH: The health profile of Muslims in Scotland, Maria Kristiansen and Aziz Sheikh3. EDUCATION: Muslims and education outcomes, Elisabet Weedon and Sheila Riddell4. POLITICAL PARTICIPATION: Young Muslims’ political interests and political participations in Scotland, Robin Finlay, Peter Hopkins and Gurchathen Sanghera5. GENDER AND MIGRATION: The role of the ‘other’ woman in shaping the subjectivities of recent Muslim migrant women to Scotland, Rebecca Syswerda6. SEXUALITY: Scottish Muslim gay men and the troubling intersection of sexuality and religion, Asifa Siraj7. YOUNG PEOPLE: Muslim youth in Scotland: Politics, identity and multicultural citizenship, Katherine Botterill, Gurchathen Sanghera and Peter Hopkins8. GENERATIONAL RELATION: Gender and generational relations for Muslim women in Scotland, Hengameh Ashraf-Emami9. HERITAGE: Feeling Scottish and being Muslim: Findings from the Colourful Heritage Project, Omar Shaikh and Stefano Bonino10. MULTICULTURALISM: Multiculturalism and Scotland:‘Bringing the outside into the middle’, Nasar Meer11. MEDIA: Muslim relations with the mainstream media in a Scottish context, Michael B. Munnik12. REPRESENTATION: Representing Islam at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Fayaz S. Alibhai13. INTEGRATION: Halal Scots: Muslims’ social integration in Scotland, Reza Bagheri

Peter Hopkins is Professor of Social Geography in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, UK. He has conducted research about Muslims in Scotland for nearly twenty years now focusing on issues such as gender and generational relations, political participation and everyday racism. Previous co-edited books include Muslims in Britain (EUP) and Geographies of Muslim Identities (Ashgate).

A rich collection of papers that offers a fascinating audit of what it means to be a ‘Scottish Muslim,’ seen through the prism of the everyday lives, experiences, practices, and attitudes of Muslims in Scotland.

• 1. INTRODUCTION: Scotland’s Muslims: Early settlement, current context and research themes, Peter Hopkins; 2. HEALTH: The health profile of Muslims in Scotland, Maria Kristiansen and Aziz Sheikh3. EDUCATION: Muslims and education outcomes, Elisabet Weedon and Sheila Riddell4. POLITICAL PARTICIPATION: Young Muslims’ political interests and political participations in Scotland, Robin Finlay, Peter Hopkins and Gurchathen Sanghera5. GENDER AND MIGRATION: The role of the ‘other’ woman in shaping the subjectivities of recent Muslim migrant women to Scotland, Rebecca Syswerda6. SEXUALITY: Scottish Muslim gay men and the troubling intersection of sexuality and religion, Asifa Siraj7. YOUNG PEOPLE: Muslim youth in Scotland: Politics, identity and multicultural citizenship, Katherine Botterill, Gurchathen Sanghera and Peter Hopkins8. GENERATIONAL RELATION: Gender and generational relations for Muslim women in Scotland, Hengameh Ashraf-Emami9. HERITAGE: Feeling Scottish and being Muslim: Findings from the Colourful Heritage Project, Omar Shaikh and Stefano Bonino10. MULTICULTURALISM: Multiculturalism and Scotland:‘Bringing the outside into the middle’, Nasar Meer11. MEDIA: Muslim relations with the mainstream media in a Scottish context, Michael B. Munnik12. REPRESENTATION: Representing Islam at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Fayaz S. Alibhai13. INTEGRATION: Halal Scots: Muslims’ social integration in Scotland, Reza Bagheri

Peter Hopkins is Professor of Social Geography in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, UK. He has conducted research about Muslims in Scotland for nearly twenty years now focusing on issues such as gender and generational relations, political participation and everyday racism. Previous co-edited books include Muslims in Britain (EUP) and Geographies of Muslim Identities (Ashgate).

A rich collection of papers that offers a fascinating audit of what it means to be a ‘Scottish Muslim,’ seen through the prism of the everyday lives, experiences, practices, and attitudes of Muslims in Scotland.

• 1. INTRODUCTION: Scotland’s Muslims: Early settlement, current context and research themes, Peter Hopkins; 2. HEALTH: The health profile of Muslims in Scotland, Maria Kristiansen and Aziz Sheikh3. EDUCATION: Muslims and education outcomes, Elisabet Weedon and Sheila Riddell4. POLITICAL PARTICIPATION: Young Muslims’ political interests and political participations in Scotland, Robin Finlay, Peter Hopkins and Gurchathen Sanghera5. GENDER AND MIGRATION: The role of the ‘other’ woman in shaping the subjectivities of recent Muslim migrant women to Scotland, Rebecca Syswerda6. SEXUALITY: Scottish Muslim gay men and the troubling intersection of sexuality and religion, Asifa Siraj7. YOUNG PEOPLE: Muslim youth in Scotland: Politics, identity and multicultural citizenship, Katherine Botterill, Gurchathen Sanghera and Peter Hopkins8. GENERATIONAL RELATION: Gender and generational relations for Muslim women in Scotland, Hengameh Ashraf-Emami9. HERITAGE: Feeling Scottish and being Muslim: Findings from the Colourful Heritage Project, Omar Shaikh and Stefano Bonino10. MULTICULTURALISM: Multiculturalism and Scotland:‘Bringing the outside into the middle’, Nasar Meer11. MEDIA: Muslim relations with the mainstream media in a Scottish context, Michael B. Munnik12. REPRESENTATION: Representing Islam at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Fayaz S. Alibhai13. INTEGRATION: Halal Scots: Muslims’ social integration in Scotland, Reza Bagheri