Somali, Muslim, British: Striving in Securitized Britain
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Language -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Security, British values and the Muslim 'other' -- The Islamic revival in Britain and beyond -- Aspiration -- Outline of the book -- Notes -- Chapter 2 An ethnog...
| Summary: | Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Language -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Security, British values and the Muslim 'other' -- The Islamic revival in Britain and beyond -- Aspiration -- Outline of the book -- Notes -- Chapter 2 An ethnography with Somali women in London -- A new Somali studies -- Ethnographic fieldwork in London -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Memories of modern Mogadishu -- Between nostalgia and critique -- Soomaalinimo and the spirit of modernity -- From independence to Scientific Socialism -- Modernity through the eyes of Somali women -- Modernity versus religion: Consequences of the 1975 family law -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Tuition centres and Somali mosques: Raising good daughters in London -- From Somalia to Britain -- Life as a refugee woman -- Religious reflections -- Investing in the next generation -- Raising 'good Somali daughters' in Britain -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Updating Soomaalinimo: Young Somalis and the problematization of culture -- A play on FGM -- Problematizing culture -- 'I have Leyla culture' -- Niiko dancing as culture -- Updating and modernizing culture -- Transcending Soomaalinimo -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Mosque hopping: Seeking Islamic knowledge in London -- New beginnings: Layla and Saynab -- New forms of knowledge -- Sheikh Ibrahim: Affect and self-transformation -- Islamic scholarship -- Western knowledge -- Debating knowledge: Sufis, Salafis and the 'bad imam' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Multiculturalism, British values and the Muslim subject -- Make Bradford British -- The problem of being British and Muslim -- The problem of interiority and exteriority -- Sister A: Exteriority as cultural -- Problematizing exteriority: From sister A to sister B -- Ikraan's jilbab -- 'What matters is what I think and feel': Cawo as a practising non-believer. Inside-out reconsidered -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Imagining an ideal husband -- The halal marriage event -- Imagining a professional, practising Somali man -- Beyond a dysfunctional marriage -- Love Jane Austen style -- Khadija as an independent professional -- Marriage, piety and aspiration -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Conclusion: Beyond Prevent -- Spotting extremists -- Prevent training -- Deradicalization -- Promoting British values -- Writing with Somali women: Future aspirations -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (305 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1350027731 |