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By Giulia Liberatore

Somalis are some of the most chastised Muslim groups in Europe. Depicted within the information as sufferers of girl genital mutilation, perpetrators of gang violence, or extra lately, as radical Islamists, Somalis were forged as a risk to social harmony, nationwide identification, and protection in Britain and past.

Somali, Muslim, British shifts realization clear of those public representations to supply a close ethnographic learn of Somali Muslim women's engagements with faith, political discourses, and public tradition within the uk.
The ebook chronicles the aspirations of alternative generations of Somali ladies as they reply to publicly charged questions of what it capability to be Muslim, Somali, and British. by way of difficult and reconfiguring the dominant political frameworks during which they're immersed, those ladies think new methods of being in securitized Britain. Giulia Liberatore presents a nuanced account of Islamic piety, arguing that it has to be understood as one amongst many varieties of striving that folks pursue all through their lives.

Bringing new views to debates approximately Islam and multiculturalism in Europe, this booklet makes a big contribution to the anthropology of faith, subjectivity, and gender.

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