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Making Muslimness explores how British Muslims navigate the UK's sociopolitical and religious tensions through performance in everyday life.
Drawing on nearly two years of interdisciplinary research in Manchester during the late 2010s and early 2020s, this book examines diverse contexts—from devised theatre projects to public processions to the aftermath of the 2017 Manchester Arena attack. It distinguishes between Islam as a religion and Muslimness as a performed identity, arguing that Muslimness emerges through negotiation based on individual relationships to Islam's social construction. Through theatre-making, ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and media analyses, the book deconstructs the racialized British assumption equating Muslim identity with Asian heritage. Instead, it reveals a resilient British Muslim counterpublic that builds solidarity, challenges harmful narratives, and creates socially just artistic spaces. The work bridges theatre and performance studies with anthropologies of Islam, Britain, and youth, while addressing intersections of Muslimness with race, gender, sexuality, age, and Britishness.
This book is an essential reading for scholars and students in performance studies, religious studies, sociology, and cultural studies interested in contemporary Muslim identities, performativity, and the politics of belonging in multicultural Britain.
Contents
Blessings and Shoutouts
Chapter 1. Origins and Directions
Chapter 2. How Not to Be a Threat: Performing Comfort, Innocence, and Familiarity after the Arena Attack
Chapter 3. Distance and Refusal: Finding Radical Absence in Pronouncement and Performance
Chapte 4. Confusing Muslim and Asian: Brownness, Bodies, and the Racial Politics of Public Space
Chapter 5. Theatre Workshop as Counterpublic: Experimenting and Playing with the Sociopolitics of Muslimness
Chapter 6. From Social and Sacred to Scripted and Staged: Devising The Wedding and Building a Community of Making
Chapter 7. The Muslim Counterpublic
Works Cited
About the Author
Index
