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The history of British Islam and British Muslims is a growing area of interest among historians and the general public. But, whilst Muslim women have featured in some research, their lives and experiences prior to the present day have remained obscure, if not hidden, in both academic and popular discussion. Uncovering Muslim womens experiences and contributions to society in past generations is essential for us to build a full picture of Muslim life in Britain, then and now.This is the first book to address that gap, telling the stories of Muslim women who lived in Britain between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, from Victorian times to the years immediately after the Second World Warjust before immigration profoundly affected the size and composition of Britains Muslim communities. It reveals a rich variety of experiences, including Muslim women who travelled to or away from Britain, and many who converted to Islam within the British Isles.Underpinned by feminist historical approaches, this groundbreaking book aims to make women visible where they have been hidden from or within history. Its fascinating accounts will reinstate Muslim women as actors, storytellers and storymakers who have shaped the history of Britain and of British Islam.
The history of British Islam and British Muslims is a growing area of interest among historians and the general public. But, whilst Muslim women have featured in some research, their lives and experiences prior to the present day have remained obscure, if not ‘hidden’, in both academic and popular discussion. Uncovering Muslim women’s experiences and contributions to society in past generations is essential for us to build a full picture of Muslim life in Britain, then and now.
This is the first book to address that gap, telling the stories of Muslim women who lived in Britain between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, from Victorian times to the years immediately after the Second World War—just before immigration profoundly affected the size and composition of Britain’s Muslim communities. It reveals a rich variety of experiences, including Muslim women who travelled to or away from Britain, and many who converted to Islam within the British Isles.
Underpinned by feminist historical approaches, this groundbreaking book aims to make women visible where they have been hidden from or within history. Its fascinating accounts will reinstate Muslim women as actors, storytellers and storymakers who have shaped the history of Britain and of ‘British Islam’.
Philosophy, unlike every other science, inquires into itself. Any inquiry that inquires into itself may be called a reflexive discipline, since it is about itself. By noting the reflexivity of philosophy, we absolutely do not mean to restrict the philosopher's domain of inquiry to the activity of philosophizing. Indeed, philosophy takes as its object more than just philosophy. Unfortunately, though this little fact is widely acknowledged, it hardly earns our respect. When we, as philosophers, take the reflexivity of philosophy as our object, we discover it to be a source of philosophical problems, the depths of which have rarely been plumbed. Of course, our very inquiry into the reflexivity of philosophy is itself a higher order instantiation of this reflexivity, and empirical proof of the reflexivity of philosophical thought. Still, the aim of this treatise is not to ponder the reflexivity of philosophy per se, but to inquire into the being of universality. Why the being of universality is one of the central issues to philosophy, as a reflexive discipline, is the topic of this short propaedeutic.
