Articles by Dr. Anwar PhD

The quest for ‘authentic’ knowledge in pursuit of an absolute truth, or Islam in its most ‘pristine’ form sourced from the Qur’an, Sunnah and the sayings of the Salaf was thus a major theme that […]

Nor was this search confined to those suffering the malaise of generations of displacement in the West—Muslim heritage (MH) respondents from both the global North and South underwent a similar process of deculturalising Islam (albeit […]

The growing availability of literature on Islam in the English language, alongside the increasing pressures of living with the “weight” of a hyphenated identity (Zaal et al. 2007:164), began impelling second-generation British Muslim youth to […]

Additionally, the complex and intimate nature of the connection between religious revivalism, exclusion and the city (AlSayyad and Massoumi 2011) was especially evident in the exposure of second- and third-generation African-Caribbean respondents to the concept […]

The emergence of Salafism as a “religion of the gaps” thus refutes “the ‘hard’ interpretation of secularization” and demonstrates that religious decline is neither a simple nor straightforward process, and does not include “the demise […]

As a result of this newfound faith, many respondents felt a sense of agency in terms of their ability to avert feelings of unhappiness, uncertainty and the general malaise often associated with the rapid demise […]

Locating the truth within Salafism also proved the most significant juncture at which the paths of all respondents, irrespective of social and cultural backgrounds, intersected based upon the foundational principle of Islam known as Tawheed, […]

Islam is the right religion, but Salafiyyah is the right route. (Nada) The search for ‘salvation’ revealed another major theme within the conversion narratives of respondents who converted to Salafism: the significance of finding the […]