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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"British Muslim"”.
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British Muslim Extremism: The Terror Within
The Muslim population in Great Britain is growing. However, due to the failed political policy of multiculturalism, Muslim culture has been allowed to develop separately from British culture. The result is a completely separate society, living within another society. The majority in the Muslim …
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British-Muslim Family Law as a Site of Citizenship
… of the actual practices of family law of Muslims in contemporary Britain. People marry, divorce, bring up their children and deal with inheritance by resorting to a variety of norms such as Muslim law, English family law and customary law. Drawing on legal pluralism scholarship and …
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Identity, religion, and clothing : the lives of British Muslim women
The continuing discourse around Muslim women’s bodies has predominately occupied itself with ideas of ‘traditional’ Islamic dress such as the Hijab, Burka, and the Niqab. Rarely has the image of the Muslim woman moved away from these popular discourses to show the various other forms of dress worn …
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How religious values influence British Muslim consumers in sustainable consumption
British Muslims have emerged as an increasingly important demographic for whom religious beliefs and values play an important role in their purchasing decisions. Based upon increasing consumer trends in Halal food consumption, Islamic Banking, Islamic Insurance and Islamic Fashion, it can be argued …
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The social construction of identities by British-Muslim pupils aged 14-15 years
… construction of ethnic and gender identities by British-Muslim pupils, from a critical, feminist, discursive position. The research draws upon critical, feminist conceptualisations of identity which challenge positivistic Social Psychological theories of ethnic identity for constructing …
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A qualitative study into the negotiation of dual identity in British Muslim women
… focuses on the negotiation of identity among British born Muslim women living in London in 2016. Semi-structured narrative interviews were carried out with five British Muslim women with the resulting data analysed using Critical Narrative Analysis. The analysis resulted in two overarching …
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The negotiation of identities through sport participation of British Muslim females living in the United Kingdom
… the negotiation of identities around sport among British Muslim females living in the United Kingdom. Sports have long been regarded as a significant aspect of culture and identity, providing individuals with opportunities for physical activity, social interaction, and personal growth. However, …
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A qualitative study exploring British Muslim women’s experiences of motherhood while engaging with NHS maternity services
… Puthussery et al., 2010; Straus et al., 2009). Muslim women of child-bearing age make up a significant part of UK society, yet their health needs and their experiences of health services have not been extensively researched. The term ‘Muslim’ is often combined with ethnic group identity, rather …
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Islam and social media entrepreneurial communications :the case of British Muslim entrepreneurs and their use of social media to identify markets and engage customers
… on social media communication activities of British Muslim entrepreneurs in terms of market identification and customer engagement. Previous academic research has argued that entrepreneurial actions are the outcome of individual characteristics, experiences and having the potential to …
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Islamophobia : reality or myth?
… attitudes and experiences of over 15,000 Muslim respondents in respect of crime victimization, discrimination and attitudes towards British society and the British state, and the reported attitudes of over 300,000 non-Muslim respondents towards Muslims and Islam. The central contention of …
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Besieged Life: Subjecting Liberal Muslim Women in the War on Terror
… inquiry examines the subjection of young British Muslim women in a northern, post-industrial city in Britain. Research has established that Muslim women are constructed by security policy, popular media, film, television, and the news as abnormal, suspicious, and lacking agency. This …
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The common good in a plural society: Muslims, Christians and the Public Arena in Britain
… interpretation, a'literary community' and 'the British Muslim community'. While it is recognised that these constructs are over-simplistic, it is argued that the conflict can most fairly be viewed by seeing participants in the controversy as members of communities of interpretation, each with …
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South Asian Young British Muslims: Identity, Habitus and the Family Field
… deeply transformed the social composition of British society which has become increasingly multicultural. Amongst other minority groups the position of Muslims, who are the second largest religious group in the UK, is particularly difficult. The 9/11 and London bombings (2005) have increased …
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Strategies of British-Pakistani Muslim women : 'subject' and 'agency' reconsidered through (an) analysis of marriage, divorce and everyday life
This dissertation explores the experiences of British Muslim women of Pakistani ethnic origin living in Slough in the south-east of England in matters related to maITiage, divorce and everyday life by looking into their private and social worlds in a diasporic space. Pakistanis in Britain have seen …
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The role of education in maintaining the Islamic identity of Muslims in Bradford
This study is an investigation into the British Muslim communities in Bradford, to identify which types of problems might threaten their Islamic identity and suggest possible solutions to assist those people to maintain their identity. The main aim of this study was to identify whether the …
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British Jihadism: The Detail and the Denial
Since the early 1990s British Islamists have been fighting, killing and dying in a succession of conflicts across the world, beginning with the Bosnian civil war of 1992-95. A decade later this violence reached the United Kingdom, with a series of deadly attacks on the London transport system in …
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Pedagogy as Dialogue between Cultures: Exploring Halaqah: an Islamic dialogic pedagogy that acts as a vehicle for developing Muslim children’s shakhsiyah (personhood, autonomy, identity) in a pluralist society
… to develop the personal autonomy of young Muslims in twenty-first century Britain. It begins by developing a theoretical grounding for Islamic conceptualisations of personal autonomy and dialogic pedagogy. In doing so, it aims to generate dialogue between Islamic and ‘western’ educational …
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Educational, social and career aspects of teenage Muslim girls in Britain : an ethnographic case study
… empirical investigation of a group of adolescent British Muslim girls. It examines the educational, social and career aspirations of these girls in the context of their present experiences by means of an ethnographic case study. It endeavours to explicate the lives of the girls in contemporary …
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White Muslim convert in the UK : beyond integration paradigm and the politics of “the other”
The notion of Islam as incompatible with British values is still exist in the body of British society. But what occurs when an individual identified as Muslim cannot be categorized as 'outsider' or 'brown'? In what ways does broader society define and interpret their identities? The white British …
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Islamic environmental ethics: a model for shaping Muslim attitudes in helping to promote environmental education, awareness and activism
… revive Islam’s ecological ethic, inspiring many Muslims worldwide to translate some of its principles into practice. Islam’s foundational educational institutions, however,still remains a vital but underutilised learning centre for imparting Islam’s ecological teachings. This thesis provides a …
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