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Performance of Multilingual and ‘Ultralingual’ Devotional Practices by Young British Muslims

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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This book examines the wide range of multilingual devotional performances engaged in by young Muslims in the UK today. It evaluates the contemporary mosque school in the UK and contrasts this with practices from the past and with prevailing discourses (both political and other) which suggest that such institutions are problematic. It also challenges the highly-politicised and mediatised discourse which suggests that linguistic diversity presents a threat to the privileging of monolingualism in the UK. Finally, it argues for the usefulness of the term ‘ultralingual’ when analysing the multilingual devotional language performances of these young people.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-03-24
Mått156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt447 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Perspectives on Language and Education
Antal sidor182
FörlagMultilingual Matters
ISBN9781800411371

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List of FiguresAcknowledgementsForeword1. Introduction 2. Multilingual and Ultralingual Devotional Practices among British Muslim Youth3. The Research of Ultralingual Practice in the Community: A 'Gentle Ethnography'4. Ultralingual Language Practice in Devotional Settings5. Ultralingual Devotional Performance in 2000 and in 20196. 'Al-Qur'an': The Sacred Text and its Centrality (Mosque School A)7. The Qur'anic Supplementary School in a Superdiverse Setting (Mosque School B)8. 'Naat and Nasheed: The Performance of Devotional Songs and Poetry (Mosque School C)9. Leaving 'the Mawlana and the Child' Behind (Mosque School D)10. 'Binding and Shifting': Language Continuity and Linguistic Change in Ultralingual Devotional PracticesReferences Index

This meticulously researched and insightfully conceived work successfully captures, for the first time, the complexity of the processes of re-contextualization and construction of the Muslim identity of the culturally and linguistically ‘superdiverse’ youth in the current rapidly globalizing diasporic community in the UK. The author’s impressive multidisciplinary framework for analyzing Muslim devotional practices presents a powerful model for the study of similar phenomena across the world.