By contrast, themes emerging from the conversion narratives of the three French Muslim heritage (MH) respondents, who migrated to Birmingham from France in the 2000s, bore some similarities to those of the British South Asians […]
The conversion narratives of all South Asian respondents show that, without exception, religion played an important role in their upbringing. Migrant parents clearly fought hard to stave off the effects of living in a secular […]
The conversion narrative of Akila, a second-generation British African-Caribbean woman in her mid-twenties, is a good starting point for trying to understand the causes of religious resurgence that have “swept across the world in the […]
Despite the intensification of characterising Salafi women as the ultimate Other in the West’s gendered War on Terror, Salafism continues to be one of the most successful agents of female conversion to Islam in the […]
Muslim heritage (MH) Salafi converts comprised the largest section of my cohort: there were 19 in total, and more ethnically and nationally diverse than their NMH counterparts. Here too, the nature and extent of religious […]
Conversion narratives of non-Muslim heritage (NMH) females show that despite political discourse shifting towards denigrating Muslim women in the West, where visible and “veiled Muslim women in particular emerge as ideal targets for those who […]
The radical conversion of females to an orthodox religious sect of a non-Western origin, known as Salafism in the West, remains an enigma for many who try to understand this seemingly puzzling behaviour from the […]
As the protests ensuing the publication of Salman Rushdie’s (1988) Satanic Verses[1] aptly showed, the 1980s and 1990s were indeed ‘a confusing time to be a young Muslim in Britain’. [2] This is because the […]
Further, what caused these deviated religious methodologies to rise from their slumber in the 1990s was the Saudi Government’s ‘controversial decision to allow an infidel army’—US troops to set up military bases inside the Kingdom […]
Consequently, UK college and university campus Islamic Societies (ISocs) became an ideal space to explore and develop a new kind of Islam during this period and would go on to play a significant role in […]
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