TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elshayyal,Khadijah
TI  - Muslim identity politics: Islam, activism and equality in Britain 
T2  - Library of European studies
SN  - 9781838602048 (pbk.) :
AV  - DA125.M87 E4 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London
PB  - I.B. Tauris
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Political activity
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Islam and politics
KW  - Islamophobia
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Identity politics
KW  - Society
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Originally published: 2018; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - The surge in divisive and far-right politics and growing Islamophobia in Britain pose new challenges for Muslim advocacy organisations. British Muslim activism has taken centre stage in the public sphere as a result. Yet for over 50 years Muslim advocacy groups have worked to preserve religious identity, lobby the state and provide concerted responses to the political establishment. This title charts the national and global factors influencing the political mobilisation of British Muslim activists as Muslims. Khadijah Elshayyal traces the changes of thought, direction and method within Muslim identity politics after 1960, noting key organisations and turning points such as the Rushdie Affair, the 9/11 attacks, the 7/7 bombings and the current conflict in Syria
ER  -