Browsing by Subject "Islam"

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    • Free speech: creating the ‘Us and Them’ debate 

      Kabir, Nahid Afrose (© 2014 Ashgate Publishing, 2014)
      Developed countries such as Australia, the United Kingdom and America take pride in their democratic institutions, personal freedoms and secular ethos. However, these conditions and their eects can become highly contested ...

    • Muslims and the Australian labour market, 1980-2001 

      Kabir, Nahid Afrose; Evans, Raymond (© 2002 Frank Cass Publishers., 2002-11)
      The unemployment of Muslims in Australia was 28 and 25 per cent compared to the national total of around nine per cent in 1986 and 1996 respectively (Australian Bureau of Statistics). This article conceptually analyses the ...

    • Muslims in Australia: Immigration, Race Relations and Cultural History 

      Kabir, Nahid Afrose (© 2004 Kegan Paul, 2004)
      In Muslims in Australia, Nahid Kabir seeks to understand the basis of mainstream Australians fear by tracing Muslim history since the Afghan settlement in 1860. In social, economic and political contexts, the author compares ...

    • A new world view and the promises of Tabligh: an ethnographic study 

      Rahman, Riedwan Habibur (Brac University, 2019-07)
      The Tablighi Jamaat is a self-proclaimed non-political, transnational Islamic reform movement which was initiated in India in the 1920's. The founder of the Tablighi Jamaat, Moulana Muhammad Ilyas (1885-1944), founded the ...

    • Women, Islam and nation in Bengal 

      Azim, Firdous (© 2011 Taylor & Francis, 2011)