This edited book provides a much-needed update on the field of Islamic Studies in Australia, which has come a long way since the pioneering work of both Riaz Hassan and Gary Bouma to whom this volume is indebted. By highlighting the richness of the contributions of Muslim Australians in diverse areas such as art, literature, architecture and popular culture, alongside the more standard sociological contributions on the ongoing challenges, this book will inspire researchers to look beyond the hackneyed notions of conflict, difference and fear, and seek to tell stories that glimpse behind the curtain and give insight into the Australian Muslim backstage experience.
Foreword
Abdullah Saeed
1. Muslims in Contemporary Australia: Introduction
Adam Possamai
David Tittensor
Part I In Memory
2. Riaz Hassan and the Empirical Sociology of Muslim Piety
Bryan S. Turner
3. People like us: the legacy of Gary Boumas empathetic sociology of
religion in partnering with Australian Muslims in countering extremism and
dealing with stigma
Greg Barton
Part II Muslim Culture in Australia
4. True blue Aussie Muslim: young Muslim men talking about Australia and
their place in it
Farida Fozdar
5. New Spaces and New Domains: Tracing the Growth and Contribution of
Australian Muslims
Mahsheed Ansari
Mirela Cufurovic
6. Millennial Muslims in Lebanese Australian Literature: Pure and Vernacular
Religion in the Bildungsromane of Michael Mohammed Ahmad and Omar Sakr
Ibrahim Abraham
7. Building Faith in Walter Burley Griffins National Capital: The Diplomatic
Mosque and other Architectural Narratives
Md Mizanur Rashid
Katharine Bartsch
Dijana Alic
Majdi Faleh
Maryam Gusheh
Mansoureh Rajabitanha
Part III Being and Perceiving a Muslim in Australia
8. Australian Muslim women's experiences of domestic and family violence: the
impact of faith
Balawyn Jones
Amira Aftab
Ghena Krayem
9. Pakistani-Muslim Immigrant Women in Australia: Self and Izzat (Honour)
Samina Yasmeen
Flavia Zimmermann
Renae Barker
10. Australian Muslim Youths Access to Online and Offline Islamic Legal and
Religious Knowledge
Ihsan Yilmaz
11. Progressive except for Islam: profiling Islamophobia sentiment
Rachel Sharples
Rhonda Itaoui
Kevin Dunn
12. New Religious Knowledge and Influence Religious Authorities on
Relations between Muslims and non-Muslims
Halim Rane
Adis Duderija
Paul Mitchell
13. Placing the Continued Hyper-securitisation of Islam and Muslims in
Australia in Global Context
David Tittensor
Farida Fozdar
Gerhard Hoffstaedter
Adam Possamai
14. Australia Muslim Men after the War on Terror: Securitization,
Generational Trauma and Superficial Masculinities
Alyssa Moohin
Adam Possamai FASSA is Professor of Sociology at the School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University. His latest book is The Sociology of Sharia. Case Studies from Around the World. Second edition (edited with Bryan Turner and James Richardson, Springer, 2023).
David Tittensor is Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the Aisa Institute in the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne. He is co-author of Religion and Change in Australia (with Adam Possamai, Routledge, 2022).
