Anshuman Mondal - Reframing the “Islamic Turn” Amongst Young British Muslims
Last Updated on Friday, 20 February 2009 00:29
Anshuman Mondal is Senior Lecturer at Brunel University. He has published essays on Indian literature in English, Gandhi, gender politics in Indian nationalism, modern Arabic narrative genres, modern Islam and fundamentalism, and the politics of the Middle East. He is the author of Nationalism and Post-Colonial Identity: Culture and Ideology in India and Egypt (Routledge, Curzon, 2003) and Amitav Ghosh for Manchester University Press’s Contemporary World Writers series
Anshuman Mondal explores the contending identity choices taken by a sample of young British Muslims in the North-West of England. Against the prevailing orthodox view of an irreconcilable clash of traditions, he argues that both the secularisation of some young Muslims and the so-called Islamisation of others can be understood as an expression of the desire for autonomy in the face of parental and cultural pressures. Rather than seeing these two routes as antithetical opposites he argues that the Islamic revival is not, in fact, a rejection of modern Britishness, but a particular expression of it.
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