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An online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

Islam in the West

Sufis, Salafis and Islamists: The Shaping of British Muslim Religious Identities

By Sadek Hamid  //  December 26, 2017December 26, 2017

In early December 2017, the British Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson gave a speech to the Foreign Commonwealth Office on the U.K’s counter-terrorism  efforts  entitled ‘How global Britain is helping to win the struggle against Islamist…

Pakistani Muslims and Irish Identity: Belonging and Fluidity in a Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland

By Craig Considine  //  March 22, 2017March 23, 2017

When you think of Irish identity, what comes to your mind? This question, which I posed to young second-generation Pakistani Muslim men while carrying out my doctoral research in the Department of Sociology at Trinity…

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