Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-vii

List of contributors

pp viii-ix

List of tables

pp x-x

List of figures

pp xi-xii

1 - Introduction: Muslims in Britain – race, place and the spatiality of identities

pp 1-20

Section 1 - Gender, place and culture

pp 21-22

2 - Creating home spaces: young British Muslim women's identity and conceptualisations of home

pp 23-36

3 - ‘You seem very westernised to me’: place, identity and othering of Muslim workers in the UK labour market

pp 37-54

4 - Rethinking the identities of young British Pakistani Muslim women: educational experiences and aspirations

pp 55-73

5 - Race, ‘face’ and masculinity: the identities and local geographies of Muslim boys

pp 74-92

Section 2 - Landscapes, communities and networks

pp 93-94

6 - British Arab perspectives on religion, politics and ‘the public’

pp 95-112

7 - The multicultural city and the politics of religious architecture: urban planning, mosques and meaning-making in Birmingham

pp 113-131

8 - Holy places, contested spaces: British Pakistani accounts of pilgrimage to Makkah and Madinah

pp 132-149

9 - Excess baggage or precious gems? The migration of cultural commodities

pp 150-168

Section 3 - Religion, race and difference

pp 169-170

10 - Situating Muslim geographies

pp 171-192

11 - Muslims and the politics of difference

pp 193-209

12 - Islamophobia in the construction of British Muslim identity politics

pp 210-227

Afterword

pp 228-230

Index

pp 231-236