Tag: Methodology

Could Today’s UK be a ‘Land of Islam’? What is the ‘Land of Islam’?  For: Contextualising Islam in Britain Project (CIBP), Symposium Four, Cambridge University, April 25th and 26th, 2009   Introduction One of the main concepts that shape Muslim minorities’ worldview and lifestyle is the concept of ‘Muslim countries’, or in other expressions, the ‘Islamic World’ or the ‘Land of Islam’. This concept has a great impact on the ‘contextualisation’ of Muslims in the west in general and in the UK in specific. First, because some Muslims perceive that they live in a ‘non-Muslim’ or ‘disbelieving’ country, they...