Contemporary Islam

Contemporary Islam OnlineFirst articles

08.11.2018 Open Access

Marriage “sharia style”: everyday practices of Islamic morality in England

The growing visibility of Islam in the public spaces of Western societies is often interpreted in the media as a sign of Muslim radicalisation. This article questions this postulate by examining the flourishing Muslim marriage industry in the UK.

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08.11.2018 Open Access

A minority within a minority?: the complexity and multilocality of transnational Twelver Shia networks in Britain

Academic scholarship on Shia Muslim minorities in the West has described them as ‘a minority within a minority’ (Sachedina 1994: 3) or as ‘the other within the other’ (Takim 2009: 143), referring to a certain sense of double-marginalization of …

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24.09.2018

Digitalizing Islamic lectures: Islamic apps and religious engagement in contemporary Indonesia

Contemporary mobile phone technology has brought millions of apps into the pockets of users, including a wide variety oriented towards religious concerns. Such apps appear to be creating new forms of religious engagement, a process that is …

24.09.2018 Open Access

“Sovereign” Islam and Tatar “Aqīdah”: normative religious narratives and grassroots criticism amongst Tatarstan’s Muslims

“Traditional Islam” has emerged in the post-Soviet Republic of Tatarstan (Russian Federation) as a powerful if contentious discursive trope. In this paper, I look at traditional Islam and its conceptual twin, “non-traditional Islam”, as normative …

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23.09.2018

Integration, class and secularism: the marginalization of Shia identities in the UK Iranian diaspora

Despite ongoing debates about the nature and role of multiculturalism in the UK, the idea of integration remains significant in British immigration policies and community relations, and it orients itself towards second and third-generation …

Weitere Informationen

Titel

Contemporary Islam

Verlag

Springer Netherlands

Abdeckung

Jahrgang 1/2007 - Jahrgang 12/2018

Print ISSN

1872-0218

Elektronische ISSN

1872-0226

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/11562.1872-0226

Zeitschriften-ID

11562