Resources - Essays, books and reports
Martin Rose: Our Muslim Fellow Europeans
Towards the end of his directorship for Our Shared Europe, Martin Rose formulated the essence of the programme in an essay on the Layalina Productions website.
Link: www.layalina.tv/Publications/Perspectives/MartinRose.html
Petra Stienen: Worried white men
Petra Stienen describes how heart-warming it is to see a group of white men appear to be working body and soul to achieve the emancipation of Muslim women in the Netherlands. This article was first published in the Dutch broadsheet newspaper De Volkskrant on 6 March 2010 under the headline 'Baas over eigen hoofd'. As a diplomat, Petra Stienen spent over ten years working in the Arab world, and currently works as a consultant.Link: http://www.oursharedeurope.org/documents/
Petra_Stienen_Volkskrant_060310.pdf
Humayun Ansari: The ‘Muslim World’ in British Historical Imaginations
Since 9/11, anxiety, and indeed fear, generated by the Muslim presence in the West and by what appear as threatening developments in different parts of the so-called Muslim world, has created at times almost a sense of collective panic. Professor Humayun Ansari inaugural lecture at the Royal Holloway University of London's Department of History in February 2010 seeked to deepen our understanding of 21st century tensions by looking at the longer term history of the problematic encounter between Britain and the Muslim world, exploring the place (or places) that Islam, Muslims and Muslim societies have occupied over centuries in the British historical discourse and the impact that these interactions have had on shaping the British imaginary.
Martin Rose: A Shared Past for a Shared Future - European Muslims and History-making
In June 2009, Martin Rose presented the third annual Zaki Badawi Memorial Lecture at the University of Westminster. The Lecture was established by the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS) UK in honour of the life and work of Sheikh Zaki Badawi, OBE, KBE.
Find out more about the lecture and read the English, French and Turkish version at www.oursharedeurope.org/zaki-badawi-lecture-09
Martin Rose: Islam, Europe, and history: across the frontiers
The traditional stories told by Europe of its own past and its encounters with the Islamic world are driven by a form of proxy politics that denies the reality of cross-fertilisation. But scholars are discovering new currents that open this intimate relationship to fresh interpretation, says Martin Rose.
Link: http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/islam-europe-and-history-across-the-frontiers
Cem Özdemir: Muslim integration in Europe – could we learn something from the United States?
When Daniel Fried criticised Europe for its poor integration of Muslims, Cem Ozdemir MEP maintains ‘he had a point’. It is crucial that we change public attitudes in Europe. For example, we need conservative parties that embrace immigrants, and Muslims who are fully active in Europe’s civil and political life.
Link: http://www.britishcouncil.org/tn2020-research-findings-authors-ozdemir.htm
Valerie Amiraux: To be laic or not to be laic? A French dilemma
The widest of all mental gaps is not between warring nations or religious groups – it is between those who believe and those who don't believe in a transcendental God. Can secular and religious people build trust effectively across this gap?
Link: http://www.counterpoint-online.org/cgi-site/biblio.cgi?action=detail&id=81
Murat Belge: Why friendship is always welcome
This collection looks at where European integration needs straw for its brickmaking: the exclusion of the Roma in; sustaining the development of Turkish civil society; and building the infrastructure of cultural-cooperation of SE Europe.
Link: http://www.counterpoint-online.org/cgi-site/biblio.cgi?action=detail&id=77
Heba Raouf Ezzat and Ahmed Mohammed Abdalla: Towards an Islamically democratic secularism
The widest of all mental gaps is not between warring nations or religious groups – it is between those who believe and those who don't believe in a transcendental God. Can secular and religious people build trust effectively across this gap?
Link: http://www.counterpoint-online.org/cgi-site/biblio.cgi?action=detail&id=81
Pervez Hoodbhoy: Returning science to Islam – the rocky road ahead
Why should we trust scientists? Is there something about them, or the way their minds are trained to work, that makes them inherently trustworthy? What happens to trust when scientists are seduced by politics, religion, money or glory?
Link: http://www.counterpoint-online.org/cgi-site/biblio.cgi?action=detail&id=62
Ziauddin Sardar: What does it mean to be a 'British Muslim'?
Recently described as ‘a place not a race; a vibe not a tribe' it's difficult to understand what 'Britishness' is all about; constantly renegotiated, it seems sometimes to be an almost infinite conversation. Today's take on the word 'we'.
Link: http://www.counterpoint-online.org/cgi-site/biblio.cgi?action=detail&id=80
Ehsan Masood: British Muslims Media Guide
This book describes Britain's Muslim communities, their history, present and future. The British Council, the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS) and partners have published it in 2006 to strengthen international understanding of the diverse nature of British society as a resource for journalists and others.
Link: http://www.britishcouncil.org/scotland-enews-june-2006-british-muslims-book-mailing.pdf
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