Muslims in Britain

Waqar I. U. Ahmad is Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research and Enterprise at Middlesex University. Formerly Chief Social Scientist at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, he is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, a member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s Research and Innovation Advisory Committee, and a Fellow of the Muslim Institute. Ziauddin Sardar is Professor of Law and Society at Middlesex University. Considered a pioneering writer on Islam and contemporary cultural issues, he is author of some fifty books, including most recently Reading the Qur’an (C. Hurst, 2011). A former columnist on the New Statesman, he is the co-editor of Critical Muslim.

• Muslims in Britain: Making Social and Political Space – An Introduction 1. Religion and Public Space 2. Britain and Britishness: Place, Belonging and Exclusion 3. Exploring Social Spaces of Muslims 4. Muslim Chaplains: Working at the Interface of ‘Public’ and ‘Private’ 5. Young Muslims in London: Gendered Negotiations of Local, National and Transnational Places 6. Multiculralism and the Gender Gap: The Visibility and Invisibility of Muslim Women in Britain 7. Everyday Making and Civic Engagement amongst Muslim Women in Scotland 8. Negotiating Faith and Politics: The Emergence of Muslim Consciousness in Britain 9. ‘Creating a Society of Sheep’: British Muslim Elite on Mosques and Imams