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

Publication Info. London ; New York, N.Y. : Continuum International Pub. Group, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 315 pages) : illustrations
Note Paperback edition: c2012.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-305) and index.
Contents Introduction / Mohammad S. Seddon and Fauzia Ahmad -- The phenomenon of serial nihilism among the British Muslim youth of Bradford / Saeed A. Khan -- An analysis of the factors that pave the way for the radicalization of British Muslim youth from a comparative perspective / Ihsan Yilmaz -- Muslim migrant youth : descriptive factors related to acculturation and psychosocial adaptation / M. Taqi Tirmazi, Altaf Husain, Fatima Mirza and Tasanee R. Walsh -- Religion, language or ethnicity? Hybridized identity among the Isma'ili youth of Afghanistan in Germany / Yahia Baiza -- Turning to my religion / Muhammad G. Khan -- '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 experience / Seyfeddin Kara -- Muslim youth and citizenship education : idealism, Islam and prospects for successful citizenship education / Nader al-Refai and Christopher Bagley -- 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 Qur'an and Sunnah / Mohammad S. Seddon.
Note Print version record.
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 o.
Subject Muslim youth.
Muslim youth -- Conduct of life.
Muslim youth -- Attitudes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Muslim youth. (OCoLC)fst01031021
Muslim youth -- Attitudes. (OCoLC)fst01031022
Muslim youth -- Conduct of life. (OCoLC)fst01031023
Jugend. (DE-588c)4028859-6
Muslim. (DE-588c)4040921-1
Großbritannien. (DE-588c)4022153-2
Added Author Seddon, Mohammed Sidiq, editor.
Ahmad, Fauzia, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Muslim youth. London ; New York, N.Y. : Continuum International Pub. Group, ©2012 9781441122995 1441122990 (DLC) 2011024515
ISBN 9781441189509 (electronic bk.)
1441189505 (electronic bk.)
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