Synopses & Reviews
"This is an excellent collection of essays on youth in a number of Muslim majority (and minority) societies in the context of globalization and modernity. A particular strength of this volume is its ability to highlight the multiple and contested roles of religion and personal faith in the fashioning of contemporary youthful Muslim identities. Such insights often challenge secular Western master narratives of modernity and suggest credible reconceptualizations of what it means to be young and modern in a broad swath of the world today."
-- Asma Afsaruddin, Professor of Islamic Studies, Indiana University
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of interest in youth issues and Muslim youth in particular. Young Muslims have been thrust into the global spotlight in relation to questions about security and extremism, work and migration, and rights and citizenship. This book interrogates the cultures and politics of Muslim youth in the global South and North to understand their trajectories, conditions, and choices. Drawing on wide-ranging research from Indonesia to Iran and Germany to the U.S., it shows that while the majority of young Muslims share many common social, political, and economic challenges, they exhibit remarkably diverse responses to them. Far from being "exceptional," young Muslims often have as much in common with their non-Muslim global generational counterparts as they share among themselves. As they migrate, forge networks, innovate in the arts, master the tools of new media, and assert themselves in the public sphere, Muslim youth have emerged as important cultural and political actors on a world stage.
Review
"This is an excellent collection of essays on youth in a number of Muslim majority (and minority) societies in the context of globalization and modernity. A particular strength of this volume is its ability to highlight the multiple and contested roles of religion and personal faith in the fashioning of contemporary youthful Muslim identities. Such insights often challenge secular Western master narratives of modernity and suggest credible reconceptualizations of what it means to be young and modern in a broad swath of the world today."
-- Asma Afsaruddin, Professor of Islamic Studies, Indiana University
"A rich volume...highly recommended."--CHOICE
"This collection of research essays interrogates the culture and politics of Muslim youth in the global South and North to understnad their trajectories, conditions and choice."--Islamic Horizons
"...very useful book...."-Contemporary Sociology
'Among the impressive features of Being Young and Muslim is the consistently high quality of the chapters as well as how well they cohere together, especially in light of the excellent introduction offered by the editors. For those interested in the politics of Muslim youth, this is an essential reference book."--British Journal of Sociology
Synopsis
This is an excellent collection of essays on youth in a number of Muslim majority (and minority) societies in the context of globalization and modernity. A particular strength of this volume is its ability to highlight the multiple and contested roles of religion and personal faith in the fashioning of contemporary youthful Muslim identities. Such insights often challenge secular Western master narratives of modernity and suggest credible reconceptualizations of what it means to be young and modern in a broad swath of the world today.
-- Asma Afsaruddin, Professor of Islamic Studies, Indiana University
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of interest in youth issues and Muslim youth in particular. Young Muslims have been thrust into the global spotlight in relation to questions about security and extremism, work and migration, and rights and citizenship. This book interrogates the cultures and politics of Muslim youth in the global South and North to understand their trajectories, conditions, and choices. Drawing on wide-ranging research from Indonesia to Iran and Germany to the U.S., it shows that while the majority of young Muslims share many common social, political, and economic challenges, they exhibit remarkably diverse responses to them. Far from being exceptional, young Muslims often have as much in common with their non-Muslim global generational counterparts as they share among themselves. As they migrate, forge networks, innovate in the arts, master the tools of new media, and assert themselves in the public sphere, Muslim youth have emerged as important cultural and political actors on a world stage.
About the Author
Linda Herrera, Senior Lecturer in International Development Studies, is Convenor of the Children and Youth Studies M.A. specialization at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Asef Bayat, Professor of Sociology and Middle East Studies, holds the chair of Society and Culture of the Middle East and Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is the author of Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn (2007) and Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East (2010).
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1.
Introduction: Being Young and Muslim in Neoliberal Times
Asef Bayat and Linda Herrera
Politics of Dissent
Chapter 2.
Muslim Youth and the Claim of Youthfulness
Asef Bayat
Chapter 3.
The Drama of Jihad: The Emergence of Salafi Youth in Indonesia
Noorhaidi Hasan
Chapter 4.
Moroccan Youth and Political Islam
Mounia Bennani-Chraïbi
Chapter 5.
Rebels without a Cause? A Politics of Deviance in Saudi Arabia
Abdullah al-Otaibi and Pascal Ménoret
Chapter 6.
The Battle of the Ages: Contests for Religious Authority in The Gambia
Marloes Janson
Chapter 7.
Cyber Resistance: Palestinian Youth and Emerging Internet Culture
Makram Khoury-Machool
Livelihoods and Lifestyles
Chapter 8.
Young Egyptians' Quest for Jobs and Justice
Linda Herrera
Chapter 9.
Reaching a Larger World: Muslim Youth and Expanding Circuitries of Operation
AbdouMaliq Simone
Chapter 10.
Being Young, Muslim and American in Brooklyn
Moustafa Bayoumi
Strivings for Citizenship
Chapter 11.
'Also the School Is a Temple': Republicanism, Imagined Transnational Spaces, and the Schooling Of Muslim Youth in France
André Elias Mazawi
Chapter 12.
Avoiding "Youthfulness"? Young Muslims Negotiating Gender and Citizenship in France and Germany
Schirin Amir-Moazami
Chapter 13.
Struggles over Defining the Moral City: Islam and Urban Public Life in Iran
Azam Khatam
Navigating Identities
Chapter 14.
Securing Futures: Youth, Generation, and Muslim Identities in Niger
Adeline Masquelier
Chapter 15.
"Rasta" Sufis and Muslim Youth Culture in Mali
Benjamin F. Soares
Chapter 16.
Performance, Politics and Visceral Transformation: Post-Islamist Youth in Turkey
Ay?e Saktanber
Chapter 17.
Negotiating with Modernity: Young Women and Sexuality in Iran
Fatemeh Sadeghi
Musical Politics
Chapter 18.
Funa ental's "Jihad Rap"
Ted Swedenburg
Chapter 19.
Maroc-Hop: Music and Youth Identities in the Netherlands
Miriam Gazzah
Chapter 20.
Heavy Metal in the Middle East: New Urban Spaces in a Translocal Underground
Pierre Hecker
Chapter 21.
Music VCDs and the New Generation: Negotiating Youth, Femininity and Islam in Indonesia
Suzanne Naafs
Chapter 22.
Conclusion: Knowing Muslim Youth
Linda Herrera and Asef Bayat
References
Author Bios