Muslim youth : challenges, opportunities and expectations / edited by Fauzia Ahmad and Mohammad Siddique Seddon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Seddon, Mohammed Sidiq.

Ahmad, Fauzia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslim youth.

Muslim youth--Conduct of life.

Muslim youth--Attitudes.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Physical Description:

xiv, 315 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, N.Y. : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2011.

Summary:

Many Muslim societies, regardless of location, are displaying a 'youth bulge', where more than half their populations are under the age of 25. An increasingly globalized western culture is rapidly eroding 'traditional' ideas about society, from the family to the state. At the same time, there is a view that rampant materialism is creating a culture of spiritual emptiness in which demoralization and pessimism easily find root. For young Muslims these challenges may be compounded by a growing sense of alienation as they face competing ideologies and divergent lifestyles.

Muslim youth are often idealized as the 'future of Islam' or stigmatized as rebelling against their parental values and suffering 'identity crises'. These experiences can produce both positive and negative reactions, from intellectual engagement and increasing spiritual maturity to emotional rejectionism, narrow identity politics and violent extremism. This book addresses many of the central issues currently facing young Muslims in both localized and globalized contexts through engaging with the work of academics, youth work practitioners and those working in nongovernmental organizations and civic institutions. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Mohammad S. Seddon & Fauzia Ahmad

Muslim youth : negotiating local and global contexts

The phenomenon of dual nihilism among the British Muslim youth of Bradford / Saeed a. Khan

Why is Hizb-ut Tahrir influential in Britain and Uzbekistan but not in Turkey and Egypt? / Ihsan Yilmaz

Identity and belonging

Muslim migrant youth: descriptive factors related to acculturation and psychosocial adaptation / M. Taqi Tirmazi, Altaf Husain, Fatima Mirza & Tasanee R. Walsh

Religion, language or ethnicity? hybridised youth identity among the Afghan Ismaili community in Germany / Yahia Baiza

Turning to my religion / M. G. Khan

Education and new media

Growing up under lockdown or educational pioneers? Challenging stereotypes of British Muslim women in higher education / Fauzia Ahmad

Muslim youth at university: a critical examination of the British higher education system / Seyfeddin Kara

Muslim youth and citizenship education: idealism, islam and prospects for successful citizenship education / Nader al-Refai & Christopher Bagley

Methodologies of engaging

activity and alterity: youth work with Muslim girls / Gill Cressey

Youth work and islam: a growing tradition / Brian Belton

Training muslim youths to be khateebs arif fitzsimon

Engaging with young muslims: some paradigms from the Quran and Sunnah Mohammad S. Seddon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [280]-304) and index.

ISBN:

1441119876

9781441119872

9781441122995

1441122990

9781441168887

1441168885

9781441189509

1441189505

OCLC:

694396634

Publisher Number:

99952494195