Full Description
How is the new generation of British Muslims navigating relations across three distinct religious and social worlds? This book looks at how they are balancing expectations from traditional Islam imported from their ancestral homeland, expressions of Islam drawn from across the global Muslim community the Ummah and from Britain itself.
Contents
Introduction: A Little Conversation; 1. About Time; 2. Abstract Form; 3. Drawing the Line; 4. Chromaticism; 5. Density; 6. The Meaning of 'Meaning'; 7. Song; 8. And Story Came Too: from Epic to Opera; 9. Closer Still: the Total Artwork; 10. The Consolations of Tradition; 11. Radical Measures; 12. Performance: the Role of the Audience.
