Anyone wanting to understand the profile and landscape of the new Muslim Britain should start here
Excerpt: This complex mosaic is relatively new because most of the families and communities she describes arrived in the United Kingdom 40 or 50 years ago. The map is unrolled with great subtlety and sensitivity — there are no megaphone headlines here. The thoroughness with which sects, cults (or tariqa), preachers, teachers and political associations are described makes this an invaluable guide to an often bewilderingly complex world.
Behind all the detail lies the question as to how such communities will evolve in Britain, and how British will they be — particularly in terms of loyalty to crown, constitution and the law. At one end the tendency is to autonomy; at the other — in the small Ismaili Shia sect — there is acknowledged allegiance to the Queen and Her Majesty’s Government.
Bowen starts by pointing out that the culture of most British Muslims is South Asian and not Arabic.
via The essential guide to Muslim Britain – Life Style Books – Life & Style – London Evening Standard.
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