Islam In Britain
Islam is the second largest religion in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, with results from the United Kingdom 2011 Census giving the UK Muslim population in 2011 as 2,516,000, 4.4% of the total population, while more recent Office of National Statistics sources have it in 2018 as 3,372,966, 5.1% of the total population. The vast majority of Muslims in the United Kingdom live in England: 2,660,116 (5.02% of the population). 76,737 Muslims live in Scotland (1.45%), 45,950 in Wales (1.50%). London has the greatest population of Muslims in the country.
The books in this section examines the historical context of Islam in Britain, beginning with early Muslim migrations and settlement in the 19th century, through to the institutionalisation of Islam in Britain in the early twentieth century and the emergence of community leaders. The books will cover the different ethnic, sectarian and doctrinal approaches to Islam belonging to and/or adopted by migrants and second generation Muslims.
Browse our different booksthat looks at the various issues that have arisen, uniquely, out of this context and in response to world events.
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The Muslim 100: The Lives, Thoughts and Achievements of the most Influential Muslims in History HardbackWho are the Muslim worlds most influential people? What were their ideas, thoughts and achievements? Why is it important to know about Islamic thought, history, culture and civilisation? Find out by reading this boo...
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British Secularism and Religion. Islam, Society and the State
British Secularism and Religion Islam, Society and the State provides an in-depth deliberation upon the now unsettled relationship between religion and politics in twenty-first century Britain, with an emphasis upon...
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Against Smoking. An Ottoman Manifesto
Ottomans initiated the West to the pleasures of opium, coffee and tulips. For their reward, they got literally smoked by Europeans, who started exporting tobacco to Turkey in the early 1600. This book is the first E...
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British Muslims Between Assimilation and Seggregation
Seddon, Hussain and Malik stress the importance of Muslim engagement in British society, and draw upon their extensive knowledge of Islam, social sciences, and the law, to demonstrate both the challenges and the pos...
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Perceptions of Islam in European Writings
This book is part of the wider study of Islam and the West: a history of European, mainly French and English, intellectual responses to Islam from the seventeenth century onwards. It focuses on the...
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British Muslims Loyalty and Belonging
This book addresses a number of the pertinent issues relating to the current status of British Muslims who are under increasing public scrutiny in expressed terms of their allegiances and loyalties. The notions of l...
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Wandering Lonely in a Crowd: Reflections on the Muslim Condition
Wandering Lonely in a Crowd Reflections on the Muslim Condition in the West is a timely collection of essays, articles, lectures and short stories that have been written during the Bush years, a time of political un...
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The Last of the Lascars: Yemeni Muslims in Britain 1836-2012 Paperback
The Last of the Lascars Yemeni Muslims in Britain, 1836-2012 charts the fascinating and little-known history of Britain oldest Muslim community.
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The Last of the Lascars: Yemeni Muslims in Britain 1836-2012 Hardback
The Last of the Lascars Yemeni Muslims in Britain, 1836-2012 charts the fascinating and little-known history of Britain oldest Muslim community.
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Islam the West and the Challenges of Modernity
Tackles the issue of how should Muslims respond to challenges of modernity without betraying their identity.
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Da'wah in the West The Qur'anic Paradigm
Maulana Syed Abul Hasan 'Ali Nadwi, one of the most prolific writers and original thinkers of our time, author of well over fifty books in various languages, and a scholar of rare distinction, passed...
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Muslim Youth in the West Towards a New Education Strategy
What future awaits the Muslim youth in Britain, or, for that matter in any similar predominantly non-Muslim secular society? This crucial question haunts every sensitive and concerned Muslim mind. We are desperately...
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Role and the Responsibilities of Muslims in the West
Urges Muslims to practise Islam in their daily lives, live by its values, invite everyone to the path of Islam and thus re-enact the role played so well earlier by the Prophet's Companions.
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