British Muslims

Philip Lewis is the author of Islamic Britain, Religion, Politics and Identity among British Muslims (2002) and Young, British and Muslim (2007). Before retiring, he spent 15 years teaching MA modules on ‘Islam in the West: the challenge to co-existence’ and ‘Religions, conflict and peacemaking in a post-secular world’ in the Peace Studies Department at Bradford University, as well being the Inter-Faith Adviser to Bishops of Bradford for almost thirty years. Sadek Hamid is Senior Researcher at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford. He has written widely about British Muslims, young people and religious identity formation. He is author of Sufis, Salafis and Islamists: The Contested Ground of British Islamic activism, (2016), Editor of Young British Muslims: Between Rhetoric and Real Lives (2017) and co-editor of Youth Work and Islam: a Leap of Faith for Young People (2011).

British Muslims are redefining their role in life as individuals and as a wider community, projecting a positive image that breaks through entrenched views in their own communities, and tackles established Islamophobia in wider British society. Lewis and Sadek’s scholarship is a timely commentary on this social change.

• PrefaceINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER 1: Muslims in Britain: A Changing LandscapeCHAPTER 2: The Islamic Seminary: Between Crisis and Renewal CHAPTER 3: Engaging Democracy and Debating Islam CHAPTER 4: Radicals, Extremists and Terrorists: Contextualising the Challenge of Radicalisation CHAPTER 5: Creating Culture: Emergence of the New "Muslim Cool"CONCLUSIONAn Annotated Bibliography