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Sufis, Salafis and Islamists: The Contested Ground of British Islamic Activism (Library of Modern Religion) Hardcover – May 30, 2016

by Sadek Hamid (Author)
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British Muslim activism has evolved constantly in recent decades. What have been its main groups and how do their leaders compete to attract followers? Which social and religious ideas from abroad are most influential? In this groundbreaking study, Sadek Hamid traces the evolution of Sufi, Salafi and Islamist activist groups in Britain, including The Young Muslims UK, Hizb ut-Tahrir, the Salafi JIMAS organisation and Traditional Islam Network. With reference to second-generation British Muslims especially, he explains how these groups gain and lose support, embrace and reject foreign ideologies, and succeed and fail to provide youth with compelling models of British Muslim identity. Analyzing historical and firsthand community research, Hamid gives a compelling account of the complexity that underlies reductionist media narratives of Islamic activism in Britain.
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    224 pages
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    English
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    I.B. Tauris
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    May 30, 2016
  5. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.56 x 8.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1784532312
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1784532314
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Sadek Hamid is currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Liverpool Hope University. He has written widely about British Muslims, young people and religious activism and is the editor of Young British Muslims: Between Rhetoric and Real Lives (2016) and co-editor of Youth Work and Islam: a Leap of Faith for Young People (2011).

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ I.B. Tauris; Sew edition (May 30, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1784532312
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1784532314
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.56 x 8.5 inches
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  • Pagalprofessor
    5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommend
    Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2018
    Highly recommend. I'm currently reading. Excellent perspective for Islam in the west observers and academics. Readable, accessible, well written. I'm enjoying it.
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  • Sam
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great read, comprehensive and insightful
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 18, 2020
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    Thoroughly enjoyed this book, so much of it was relatable. And having lived through the 80’s onwards could definitely reference certain experiences with what was covered. It also helped by providing insights into past events which I always wondered about. As comprehensive as it is I did however wonder why there was no mention of the tablighis? But after reaching out to the author he was kind enough to explain why and even pointed towards other works that cover this movement.
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  • J F G Shearmur
    4.0 out of 5 stars Informative review of developments in British Islam over recent years
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 6, 2020
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    This is a most interesting and informative book,although I think that it would have been strengthened if the author had inter-related the material which he was discussing with wider literature in sociology and the sociology of religion. It gives a striking picture of the ideas and movements that he surveys, although it is important to note the disclaimers that he makes at the end of the book, as to the relatively small numbers of people who were involved. It would be good if there were a study which complemented this, which gave a detailed picture of the views and concerns of those British Muslims who were not involved with these ideas and groups - and, indeed, an estimate as to numbers.
    There is a problem for the reader who is not familiar with the movements and personalities, to keep track of just who everyone is - especially as some of the splits are all to reminiscent of the 'People's Front of Judea' stuff in *The Life of Brian*. That being said, this seemed to me essential reading. It tells an interesting story, and is invaluable in terms of the documentation of its material and in its references. Strongly recommended.
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  • GarethGray
    3.0 out of 5 stars A sanitised treatment of Muslim activism
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 10, 2017
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    This is an interesting book, and will be rewarding for anyone wanting a more granular insight into the evolution of Islamist and other groups in the UK, as well as their historical context. However, a critical reader should be aware of what seems to be a commitment on the author’s part to de-link what he calls Muslim “activism” from extremism and terror.

    It shows up in sanitised presentations of extremist organisers and speakers such as Omar Bakri, former leader of the Islamist party Hizb ut-Tahrir, his protégé Anjem Choudary, who led the proscribed group Al-Muhajiroun, and the convicted hate preacher Abdullah Al-Faisal.

    The author is keen to present the movements in which these and other men had prominent voices over years as “activism” and the formation of “assertive Muslim identities”, but he omits any mention of their links to terrorism, such as Bakri’s documented incitement to murder, the now-imprisoned Anjem Choudary’s mentoring of the Lee Rigby killers Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale (and several others), or Abdullah Al-Faisal’s relationships with the 7/7 bombers Mohammad Sidique Khan and Jermaine Lindsay. Such omissions are difficult to understand, given the author’s stated aim to “fairly contextualise” the evolution of the trends in Britain.

    Hamid discloses that he was an activist himself from the 1980s to the early 2000s, but leaves himself open to accusations of sympathetic bias by his treatment of other key phenomena. For instance, he notes that in the period leading up to the 7/7 bombings “the literature of most activist organisations during this time was saturated with the rhetoric of jihad and criticism of Israel”, but the author explains this merely as “the mood of Muslims” toward Israel/Palestine and Kashmir, and nowhere reflects on what this echo chamber might drive young men to do.

    Elsewhere Hamid acknowledges that the intensification of Muslim identity drove some to fight in conflict zones such as Afghanistan in the 1980s and Bosnia in the 1990s, and in this trend he includes the Britons, now estimated to number more than 800, who joined Islamic State. These, he writes, “were originally motivated to travel to protect innocents caught up in the civil war”. This careful formulation is an astonishing whitewash, considering the book was researched and published after the public was subjected to the televised brutality of IS, including the beheadings carried out by British-educated Mohammed Emwazi, or ‘Jihadi John’.

    While the author is refreshingly candid about the absolutist, grievance-fuelled, millenarian ideologies that have swirled for decades within the main trends of Muslim “activism” in Britain, one is left feeling that the author is singularly reluctant to face up to their consequences.
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