"The Infidel Within" Muslims in Britain since 1800 [Paperback]

Muslims constitute Britain's second largest religious grouping, and writing about their experiences has found a new audience in recent years-though not always through a positive lens. But a proper historical treatment of their arrival, settlement and establishment had been conspicuously absent until Humayun Ansari's seminal work, reissued here in an updated edition. The Infidel Within draws together rich archival research and first-hand experience into a broad, integrated history of the Muslim presence in Britain. Among the topics addressed are migration and settlement in Britain before 1945, the evolution of a British Muslim identity, Muslim women and families, Muslims and education, and the growing mobilization of Muslims in Britain's political, religious and economic life. This definitive and sympathetic history, brought right up to date, is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand modern Britain.

Glossary
Preface to New Edition

1. Is there a British Muslim Identity?
The context
The issues
Muslim identity and 'native' British converts to Islam
Young British Muslims

PART I
ARRIVING, 1800-1945

2. Muslim Migration and Settlement in Britain before 1945
Early Muslim migration to Britain: visitors, sailors and settlers
Imperial connections
Seafaring sojourners
Muslim migration to Britain, 1914-45
Fluctuating fortunes
New opportunities

3. Muslim Engagement with British Society up to the First World War
Contact, channels of communication and early arrivals in Britain
Carving out a niche: interaction during the early nineteenth century
Changing British attitudes towards Muslims
Measures to administer relief to 'deserving cases'
Muslim life in late Victorian Britain
Encounters with the opposite sex
The class factor: the case of the Munshi and the Court
Perfidious Turks and despotic Orientals
Quilliam's Liverpool Muslim congregation
Pan-Islam and the First World War