Medina in Birmingham, Najaf in Brent : Inside British Islam.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Introduction -- 1. The Deobandis: The Market Leaders -- The origins and principles of the Deobandi movement -- The Silk Letter Conspiracy -- The Madani/Thanawi split -- The Jamiat Ulama e Britain -- The seminaries -- Sheikh Riyadh ul Haq -- Political engagement at local and national level -- Attitude towards integration -- Taliban links -- Kashmiri jihadi groups -- Conclusion -- 2. The Tablighi Jamaat: Missionaries and a Mega Mosque -- Modus operandi -- Terrorist connections -- Are the terrorist accusations fair? -- The London 'mega mosque' -- 3. The Salafis: 'Don't call us Wahhabis!' -- JIMAS-Britain's first Salafi youth organisation -- JIMAS, jihad and Lashkar-e-Taiba -- Pietists versus political Islam -- The arrival of the Salafi-Jihadis -- Saudi influence in Britain -- Salafi attitude to women -- Salafis and wider society -- The jihadi Salafi scene in Britain after 7/7 -- The Ahl-e-Hadith legacy -- The JIMAS legacy -- The new Salafi scene -- 4. The Jamaat-e-Islami: British Islam's Political Class -- Origins -- Maududi's followers in the UK -- The Jamaat-e-Islami and the Bangladeshi community -- The creation of the Muslim Council of Britain -- Decline in influence -- How Maududist are the 'Maududists'? -- The future for the Jamaat-e-Islami in Britain -- 5. The Muslim Brotherhood: The Arab Islamist Exiles -- History of the Muslim Brotherhood -- The Brotherhood's early history in Britain -- 1990s: democracy versus jihad -- Relationship with the Jamaat-e-Islami -- The Brothers set up a British organisation -- Decline and fallout -- After the Arab Spring -- The Brotherhood legacy -- 6. The Barelwis: Sufis and Traditionalists -- The Barelwis -- Being a Sufi in Britain -- Sufis versus Salafis -- The British Muslim Forum and the Sufi Muslim Council.

Sufis, jihad and foreign policy -- An alternative to Islamism? -- Sufis and sharia law in Britain -- Sufism and militancy -- Conclusion -- 7. The Shia 'Twelvers': Najaf in Brent -- The Sunni-Shia divide -- Marjas, Ayatollahs and Grand Ayatollahs -- The 'Najaf School' in London -- Shi'ite seminaries in Britain -- The influence of the Islamic Republic of Iran -- The Indian and Pakistani Shia-the hidden majority -- The Khoja Shia Ithna'ashari -- The Shia Ithna'asharia Community of Middlesex-Khoja modernisers -- The Arab Shia and the Dawa Party -- The British Shia and the Iraq War -- Relations with British Sunnis -- Conclusion -- 8. The Ismailis: The Dawoodi Bohras and the Followers of the Aga Khan -- Who are the Ismailis? -- The Nizari Ismailis today -- Who are the Aga Khan's followers in Britain? -- The Aga Khan Development Network -- The Dawoodi Bohras -- The Mohammedi Park Complex -- The Dawoodi Bohra Reformists -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

The ideology and history of Britain's main Islamic groups explained.

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