British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End : the changing landscape of dress and language / Fatima Rajina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rajina, Fatima, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Psychology)--Great Britain--Religious aspects--Islam.

Identity (Psychology).

Islamic clothing and dress--Great Britain.

Islamic clothing and dress.

Muslims--Great Britain--Attitudes.

Muslims.

Muslims--Great Britain--Social life and customs.

Bangladeshis--Great Britain--Ethnic identity.

Bangladeshis.

Clothing and dress--Religious aspects--Islam.

Clothing and dress.

Sociolinguistics.

sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Popular discourse around British Muslims has often been dominated by a focus on Muslim women and their sartorial choices, particularly the hijab and niqab. This book takes a different angle and focuses on Muslim men, examining how factors like the global war on terror influenced and changed their sartorial choices and use of language. The book denaturalises the ubiquitous and deeply problematic security lens through which knowledge of Muslims has been produced in the past two decades.iBritish Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End /ioffers an alternative reading of these communities and how their political subjectivities emerge. Drawing on historical events, field research and existing academic work, the book aims to address the multiple ways British Bangladeshi Muslim men and women create their relationship with dress and language. This is the first book to empirically examine how dress and language shape the identities of British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End, using in-depth analysis useful for anyone interested in the study of British Muslims broadly. While the book focuses on a specific Muslim community, the emerging themes demonstrate the interconnectedness of Muslims locally and globally and how they manifest their identities through dress and language.Cover illustration by Waheeda Rahman-Mair: prints available at https://www.waheeda.co.uk/store"-- From JSTOR.

Contents:

From Shurma to Thames, from Desh to Bidesh: history of migration

Shaping of identity: the relationship with South Asian clothes

Visibly Muslim: the aesthetic choices

Being Bengali: more than just the language

Audibly Muslim: Arabic as the lingua franca?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed April 16, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Rajina, Fatima. British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End.

ISBN:

9781526172952

152617295X

9781526172938

1526172933

OCLC:

1472850040

Publisher Number:

CIPO000101758

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license