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For most young people religion and religiosity is something latent or private activated by private events or the passing of years. For Muslim young people it can be activated by an incessant Islamaphobic discourse that requires fundamental questions of relationships and belonging to be addressed in the public gaze whilst being positioned as representatives and 'explainers' of their religion and their communities. Written by a leading practitioner and academic in the field of youth and community work this multidisciplinary book reflects the way theoretical, the social and the religious impacts on the lives of Muslim young people.

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Young Muslims, Youth Work, Pedagogy and Islam may be the most important book yet written on the genealogy of youth work and its crucial importance to Muslim youth at a time in which the social state is under attack and the war on youth has taken on new and ruthless racist directions. Richly focusing on the details of young people's lives, Muhammad Khan provides a brilliant critique of the diverse social, economic, political, pedagogical, and cultural ideologies and policies that bear down on Muslim youth in and through diverse approaches to youth work and services. At the same time, the book mediates the lived experiences of youth with a series of insights that offer a new paradigm for youth work mediated through relationships in which matters of pedagogy, spirituality, democratic values, and institutional forms provide the formative culture for a new understanding of such work and its relationship to a just and democratic future. Given the current war on youth, the resurgence of Islamaphobia in the West, and the collapse of the social state, this is a book that should be read by everyone who believes that bigotry rather justice and diversity is the enemy of democracy. ---Henry Giroux. Khan challenges the prevailing 'othering' of Islam by policy agendas driven by fear. He shows how significant Islamic pedagogies can shape and move youth work practice focussed on everyday lives. ---Janet Batsleer, Principal Lecturer Youth and Community Work, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Young Muslims, Pedagogy and Islam may be the most important book yet written on the genealogy of youth work and its crucial importance to Muslim youth at a time in which the social state is under attack and the war on youth has taken on new and ruthless racist directions. Muhammad Khan provides a brilliant critique of the diverse social, economic, political, pedagogical, and cultural ideologies and policies that bear down on Muslim youth in and through diverse approaches to youth work and services. This is a book that should be read by everyone who believes that bigotry rather justice and diversity is the enemy of democracy. ---Henry Giroux. Khan challenges the prevailing 'othering' of Islam by policy agendas driven by fear. He shows how significant Islamic pedagogies can shape and move youth work practice focussed on everyday lives. ---Janet Batsleer, Principal Lecturer Youth and Community Work, Manchester Metropolitan University. MG Khan is to be commended for an excellent and well-crafted analysis of Muslim young people in the age of the war on terror that convincingly rejects the tired and tried caricatures that circulate about Muslim youth. ---Salman Sayyid, University of Leeds.

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Muhammad Khan established the Muslim Youth Work Foundation (www.mywf.org.uk) and is a Tutor in Youth and Community Work, Ruskin College Oxford.

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