Title
Islam in the Anglosphere : perspectives of Young Muslims in Australia, the UK and the USA / Ihsan Yilmaz.
ISBN
9819937809 electronic book
9789819937806 (electronic bk.)
9789819937790
9819937795
Published
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer, [2023]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 323 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-99-3780-6 doi
Call Number
HQ799.8.G7 Y55 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.235088297
Summary
Using semi-structured interviews with 122 young Muslims in Australia, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (USA) from diverse ethnic backgrounds, this book investigates the lived reality of young Muslims from their own perspectives. It explores their ideas of key Islamic and secular issues, their struggles, world views, triumphs, how the stigmatized group negotiates their identity in these three English language speaking Western countries, 20 years after 9/11. The key aspect of this book is to transcend binaries and reductionisms by exploring what Muslims actually think and say rather than intellectual articulations on them. The book presents a very detailed account of these young Muslims in the Anglophone West on their political beliefs, their knowledge and understanding of sharia law, their interest and participation in local and transnational political activism, their positive and negative feelings about their own communities, and indeed how they define their community. Ihsan Yilmaz is Research Professor and Chair of Islamic Studies at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Oxford University's Regent College and the European Center for Populism Studies, Brussels. Previously, he worked at the Universities of Oxford and London and has a strong track record of leading multi-site international research projects funded by the Australian Research Council, Victorian and Australian Governments, and Gerda Henkel Foundation. He has been working on various topics including Muslim diasporas in the West, authoritarianism, digital authoritarianism, populism, and religion and politics with special emphasis on Turkey, Indonesia and Pakistan.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 14, 2023).
Chapter 1 Transcending Orientalism, Islamophobia and Victimhood
Chapter 2: Young Muslims and Living with Discrimination in the Anglosphere
Chapter 3: Multilayered Identity of Young Muslims in the Anglosphere
Chapter 4: Young Muslims in the Anglosphere and Expression of Faith
Chapter 5: Sharia and Young Muslims in the Anglosphere
Chapter 6: Engagement Inside Home (Australia/UK/USA) Country
Chapter 7: Transnational Engagement of Young Muslims: The Global Citizen
Chapter 8: National, Transnational and Global Political Participation of Young Muslims
Chapter 9: Intersectionality, Complexity, Agency and Resilience of Young Muslims in the Anglosphere.