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About the Author
Dr Tahir Abbas is Reader in the Department of Sociology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Culture, University of Birmingham, UK. He is author of The Education of British South Asians (2004) and editor of Muslim Britain (2005).
Reviews
This topical collection of articles by leading scholars confronts us with a complex and diverse post-modern phenomenon in the European context ! it helps make sense of both the debates around the role of the media, Islamophobia, social and economic exclusion, crises of Muslim masculinity, gender and intergenerational conflicts, the impact of global political developments, and questions of identity in fuelling radical 'Islamism', and of the more urgent reflections on terrorism and violence post-7/7. Readers will be left in little doubt about the challenge that Islamic political radicalism poses in twenty-first century Europe to both Muslims and non-Muslims. -- Humayun Ansari, author of 'The Infidel Within': Muslims in Britain Since 1800 Tahir Abbas has put together a comprehensive examination of the roots -- political, social, cultural, and international -- of Islamic radicalism in Europe today. After the bombings in Madrid and London, there is an urgent need for an informed and probing account of why extremism has taken hold in certain quarters and how the vast majority of law-abiding Muslims are caught up in efforts to contain it. This work speaks directly to the concerns of scholars, journalists and policymakers and provides instructive and timely answers. -- James Piscatori, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies This topical collection of articles by leading scholars confronts us with a complex and diverse post-modern phenomenon in the European context ! it helps make sense of both the debates around the role of the media, Islamophobia, social and economic exclusion, crises of Muslim masculinity, gender and intergenerational conflicts, the impact of global political developments, and questions of identity in fuelling radical 'Islamism', and of the more urgent reflections on terrorism and violence post-7/7. Readers will be left in little doubt about the challenge that Islamic political radicalism poses in twenty-first century Europe to both Muslims and non-Muslims. Tahir Abbas has put together a comprehensive examination of the roots -- political, social, cultural, and international -- of Islamic radicalism in Europe today. After the bombings in Madrid and London, there is an urgent need for an informed and probing account of why extremism has taken hold in certain quarters and how the vast majority of law-abiding Muslims are caught up in efforts to contain it. This work speaks directly to the concerns of scholars, journalists and policymakers and provides instructive and timely answers.
Book Information
ISBN 9780748625284
Author Tahir Abbas
Format Paperback
Page Count 324
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Weight(grams) 546g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 23mm