Islam in Israel - Muslim Communities in Non-Muslim States

This unique window into Muslim identities provides scholars and students with important up-to-date data about real Muslims living in Israel.

List of contents

List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Note on transliteration; Introduction; 1. Islam in Israel: background; 2. Islamic religious authority and interpretation in Israel; 3. Islam and the public: affiliation, religiosity and observance; 4. Muslim identity and Islamic practice in Israel; 5. The Muslim minority and the Israeli establishment: acceptance and/or alienation;. 6. Being Muslim in the Israeli socio-cultural space; Conclusions; Appendix A: English questionnaire; Appendix B: Arabic questionnaire; Glossary of Arabic terms; Bibliography and sources; Index.

About the author

Muhammad Al Atawneh is senior lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He has published extensively on Islamic law and society in contemporary Arab and Islamic worlds. Research interests focus on the study of Islam in modern times, mainly in three concurrent areas: 1. Islamic law and modernity; 2. state and governance in contemporary Islamic thought and practice; and 3. Islam in Israel which covered significant issues regarding Muslim daily life, attitudes, beliefs, levels of (dis)satisfaction, and attitudes towards the Israeli establishment and Israeli society.Nohad 'Ali is a senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Western Galilee College, Israel and senior researcher at the Jewish-Arab center at the University of Haifa, Israel. He is an expert on religious fundamentalism (Jewish and Islamic in Israel), political Islam, Jewish-Arab relations in Israel, Arab women and violence.

Summary

Focussing on the evolving role of Islamic law in the construction of a Muslim minority identity in Israel, this valuable contribution to the literature on Islam in Israel, as well as Islamic studies and Israel studies in general, will be of great interest to scholars and students alike.

Product details

• Authors: Muhammad (Ben-Gurion University of the Al Atawneh, Muhammad (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Al Atawneh, Muhammad Al-Atawneh, Muhammad (Ben-Gurion University of the Al-Atawneh, Muhammad (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Al-Atawneh, Nohad Ali, Nohad (University of Haifa Ali
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781108423267
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42326-7
• No. of pages: 210
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Israel, HISTORY / Middle East / General, Middle East, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern history, Islamic Life & Practice, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Islamic life and practice, Social groups: religious groups and communities