Islam in Britain: It was 20 years ago... 'British Islam after Rushdie'

Thursday 2 April 2009

It was 20 years ago... 'British Islam after Rushdie'

Anshuman A Mondal, Prospect Magazine, British Islam after Rushdie, April 09 "As I found out in a journey across Britain, the central conflict in Muslim communities is not between secular and Islamic values, but between the generations of the Muslim families who live here." Also available as a pdf

Also in Prospect:

Hanif Kureishi, Kureishi on the Rushdie Affair, April 09 "Kenan Malik talks to Hanif Kureishi about the Rushdie fatwa and why no one would write such a book today."

That interview is taken from Kenan Malik's "From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy" (Atlantic), which sounds like an interesting book (out this month).

Islamic Algorithms

Gary R. Bunt is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David; Principal Investigator for the ESRC funded Digital British Islam project; Co-Investigator for the CHANSE funded Digital Islam Across Europe project.

Prof. Bunt's book Hashtag Islam: How Cyber Islamic Environments are Transforming Religious Authority was published in 2018. A new book, Islamic Algorithms, is out in May 2024.

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