Social Science Islamic Studies
Political Muslims
Understanding Youth Resistance in a Global Context
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2019
- Category
- Islamic Studies, Urban
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780815635833
- Publish Date
- Feb 2019
- List Price
- $53.95
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Description
In the last few decades, the media, academics, and the general public have put considerable focus on Muslim culture and politics around the world. Specifically, the rising population of young Muslims has generated concerns about religious radicalism, Islamism, and conflicts in multicultural societies. However, few studies have been devoted to how a new generation of Muslims is reshaping society in positive ways. In Political Muslims, Abbas and Hamid provide a new perspective on Muslim youth, presenting them as agents of creative social change and as active participants in cultural and community organizations where resistance leads to negotiated change.
In a series of case studies that cross the globe, contributors capture the experiences of being young and Muslim in ten countries—the United States, Canada, Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, and Indonesia. They examine urban youth from various socioeconomic backgrounds, addressing issues that range from hybrid identities and student activism to the strategic use of music and social media. With diverse disciplinary and methodological approaches, Political Muslims gives readers a nuanced and authentic understanding of the everyday social, economic, and political realities of young people.
About the authors
Chloe A. Gill-Khan's profile page
Shehnaz Haqqani's profile page
Martijn de Koning is an anthropologist affiliated with the Department of Islamic Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen. He is the co-author (with Carmen Becker and Ineke Roex) of Islamic Militant Activism in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany: “Islands in a Sea of Disbelief”’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). With Nadia Fadil and Francesco Ragazzi, he edited the volume Radicalization in Belgium and the Netherlands Critical Perspectives on Violence and Security (IB Tauris, 2019). He maintains his own blog: http://religionresearch.org/closer.
Martijn de Koning's profile page
Hadiyah Muhammad's profile page
Andreas Tunger-Zanetti's profile page
Jasmin Zine is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, OISE/University of Toronto.
Editorial Reviews
Muslim youth, like Muslims in general and Islam itself, resist narrow stereotypes and incendiary shibboleths. In Political Muslims both Islamism and Islamic radicalization are addressed, but so are music, sports and education. Indeed, no topic, no problem and no prejudice is omitted from this comprehensive, insightful and timely volume. Highly recommended for all categories of academics but also for all engaged in the new global politics marked by religious and cultural identities.
Bruce B. Lawrence, professor emeritus of Islamic Studies, Duke University
Overall this is a timely, interesting and well-structured volume focusing on young Muslims around the world….It offers the reader an alternative approach to what usually dominates the western media and politics, as well as in some cases the academia, leading to the re-production of Islamophobia.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
This book is crucial for those meaning to research further the diversity that exists in Muslim societies across the globe.
Reading Religion
Political Muslims represents a significant work insofar as it provides an important and valuable alternative portrait of socially and politically engaged Muslim youth mobilizing their religious identity and particular interpretations of religion in ways that allow them to pursue political agendas.
Peter Mandaville, professor of international affairs, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University
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