Islam and Christian-muslim Relations 

About: Islam and Christian-muslim Relations is an academic journal published by Routledge. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Islam & Politics. It has an ISSN identifier of 0959-6410. Over the lifetime, 1060 publications have been published receiving 8355 citations. The journal is also known as: Islam & Christian Muslim relations.

Will the revolution be tweeted? A conceptual framework for understanding the social media and the Arab Spring

Abstract: The goal of this article is to build a conceptual framework for understanding the role of social media in the so-called ‘Arab Spring’, considering two different disciplinary perspectives: International Relations and Internet Studies. More specifically, it relies on literature on Middle Eastern political systems and on social network sites. It also refers to literature that examines the relationship between (social) media engagement and civic engagement. Building on this foundation, the article analyses the main attempts to evaluate the ‘impact’ of social media on the ‘Arab Spring’ from specific perspectives. Commentators have tended to adopt a dichotomous vision of the topic, either emphasizing the ‘revolutionary’ role of social media or totally minimizing its role; this article defines them as digital evangelists and techno-realists respectively. In order to prove their point of view, both sides focus on the same issues. The study critically analyses the main issues, discussing how they have been interpr...

What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic

Abstract: What Is Islam? is both a substantive critique of the field of Islamic studies and a radical reconceptualization of ‘Islam’/‘Islamic’ that seeks to account for the manifold and often mutually contra...

Islamophobia in Contemporary Britain: The Evidence of the Opinion Polls, 1988–2006

Abstract: British attitudes towards Islam and Muslims are examined on the basis of 104 public opinion polls conducted between 1988 and 2006, 90 of them since 2001. Many of these surveys were undertaken at national crisis points of one sort or another for which Islam and Muslims could not avoid being seen as causal factors. Nine high-level conclusions are drawn from this evidence. There has been increasing Islamophobia, not least since 2001. A stereotypical picture of British Muslims in the eyes of the majority population has emerged, Muslims being seen as slow to integrate into mainstream society, feeling only a qualified sense of patriotism, and prone to espouse anti-Western values that lead many to condone so-called Islamic terrorism. To an extent, these stereotypes reflect the reality of Muslim views, as displayed in 29 polls conducted among the British Muslim community, mainly since 2001.

Individualization and religious authority in Western European Islam

Abstract: In the literature on Western Europe's Muslim communities,1 the question of whether Muslim beliefs and practices are transforming (or not) in a historically new environment and, one hastens to add, ...