Establishing Islam in Britain
| Autor: | Brendan McNamara |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Cultural Studies
060303 religions & theology History 060101 anthropology Project commissioning media_common.quotation_subject Religious studies Empire Historiography Islam 06 humanities and the arts 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Worship Anthropology 0601 history and archaeology Narrative Afterlife Dimension (data warehouse) Classics media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Muslims in Europe. 7:309-330 |
| ISSN: | 2211-7954 |
| DOI: | 10.1163/22117954-12341376 |
| Popis: | The commissioning of a mosque in Woking in early 1913 marks a seminal moment in the establishment of Islam in Britain. It was the first purpose-built Muslim place of worship to be raised at the heart of Empire, though it did not come fully into use until some years after it was built in 1889. This article problematises the accepted narrative of how the mosque became operational and highlights factors bearing on the establishment of the Woking Islamic mission that are now obscure or have not previously been analysed. Addressing the ‘afterlife’ of the events and figures at the heart of this narrative, the mnemohistorical dimension will be juxtaposed with the historiographical towards recovering recondite aspects central to the first Islamic institutional stirrings in Britain. The article complexifies what may in contemporary terms be categorised as ‘difficult history’. |
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