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Author Bowen, Innes, author

Title Medina in Birmingham, Najaf in Brent : inside British Islam / Innes Bowen
Published London : Hurst & Company, 2014

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Contents The Deobandis: The Market Leaders -- The Tablighi Jamaat: Missionaries and a Mega Mosque -- The Salafis: 'Don't call us Wahhabis!' -- The Jamaat-e-Islami: British Islam's Political Class -- The Muslim Brotherhood: The Arab Islamist Exiles -- The Barelwis: Sufis and Traditionalists -- The Shia 'Twelvers': Najaf in Brent -- The Ismailis: The Dawoodi Bohras and the Followers of the Aga Khan
Summary Muslim intellectuals may try to define something called British Islam, but the truth is that as the Muslim community of Britain has grown in size and religiosity, so too has the opportunity to found and run mosques which divide along ethnic and sectarian lines. Just as most churches in Britain are affiliated to one of the main Christian denominations, the vast majority of Britain's 1600 mosques are linked to wider sectarian networks: the Deobandi and Tablighi Jamaat movements with their origins in colonial India; the Salafi groups inspired by an austere form of Islam widely practiced in Saudi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 9, 2016)
Subject Islam -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century
Islamic sects -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century
Muslims -- Great Britain
RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
Islam
Islamic sects
Muslims
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781849045292
1849045291
1849045305
9781849045308
Other Titles Inside British Islam