Archive for the ‘Islam’ Category

Hip-Hop and Urban Islam in Europe

BY PETER MANDAVILLE
This is real life, engraved on my pages: families dying from starvation whilst the government’s worried about immigration.
— Blind Alphabetz, ‘Concrete Landz’
Like everyone today, Young British Muslims are carrying around iPods full of the latest tunes. Despite the recent phenomenal popularity of a pop-oriented variant of nasheed devotional music—a key artist would be [...]

Posted by admin on July 6th, 2009 No Comments

Unsettling Possibilities

BY SALAH A. A. KHADR
The importance of religion is by no means receding in the modern world. The salience of religious movements around the globe, and the substantial torrent of commentary by scholars and journalists that have accompanied them, attest to that fact. Whilst the “resurgence of reli­gion” has been welcomed by many as a [...]

Posted by admin on June 9th, 2005 No Comments