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Muslim Diversities is a comprehensive exploration of the diversities that constitute contemporary Islamic and Muslim social, political economic and theological landscapes around the world, challenging and deconstructing the assumption of homogeneity that pervades contemporary understandings of the terms ‘Islam’ and ‘Muslim’ through in-depth community studies. The volumes present a wide range of critically engaged and innovatively informed perspectives, drawn from an international group of contributors who focus on communities in Britain, Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and Australia. This important series will contribute toward a better understanding of the contemporary world’s Muslim communities and will stimulate new thinking across a range of relevant and timely issues.
Volume I: Communities and Contexts investigates some of the lesser-known Muslim diversities, from extreme sects to orthodox ones, and from established communities to new and largely unknown groups that have recently emerged. Volume II: Circumstances and Change focuses on the transitions that Muslim communities around the word are currently undergoing, in the context of new and historical factors, both external and internal, that have been the impetus for socio-economic, geo-political, geographic and demographic change. Volume III: Conformity and Conflict critically explores the key issues and tensions that currently affect contemporary Muslim communities, considering the bi-polarity of conformity and conflict and how these are manifested, focussing on communities that experience tensions or are in a state of flux.
Chris Allen is a Visiting Lecturer in the Religious Studies Department at the University of Wolverhampton, a Teaching Associate in the University of Birmingham’s Sociology Department and a Senior Research Fellow at the Policy Research Unit at the Islamic Foundation.
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| Binding: Hardback
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| Pages: 300
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| ISBN: 0-7103-1382-9
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| Series / Library: Anthropology, Economy and Society
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