Author : Mustafa Y. McDermot
A comprehensive account of the beliefs, values and customs of Muslims; especially useful for teachers, health-care providers, social workers and others who are in daily contact with MuslimsBritain long since became a multi-cultural, multi-religious society, and within this unique setting Muslims now constitute the second largest religious group. However, information and knowledge about Islam is very minimal, particularly among teachers, employers, community workers and administrators, who in their daily work come face to face with members of the Muslim community. This Guide therefore attempts to present the beliefs, values and customs of the Muslims to a very wide audience in the hope that it will enhance better communications, foster harmonious relationships and remove the misconceptions generally prevalent in the West. The problems and difficulties which the Muslim community is facing in relation to employment, education, medical care and penal institutions are delineated with care and frankness and various recommendations made for overcoming them without inconvenience to the host community. A useful list of mosques, Muslim organizations and resource centres has been appended. Mustafa Yusuf McDermott was bom in England. Brought up as a Roman Catholic, he embraced Islam late in life. He studied Social Science at the Universities of Leeds and Loughborough and lectured in Sociology and taught English in Colleges of Further Education. He was engaged in Muslim Welfare and teaching in Norwich, London and Dublin and involved in editing Islamic works. as well as original writing. Dr. M. Manazir Ahsan is an M.A. in Islamic History and Culture from the University of Rajshahi. Bangladesh and has done his doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies. University of London. He received his Arabic and Islamic education from 'Alia Madrasah in Bangladesh. He has been associated with the Islamic Foundation, Leicester since 1973 and is presently Director General, and co-editor of its quarterly review journal, the Muslim World Book Review. His publications include: Islam: Faith and Practice (Leicester. 1977), Social Life Under the Abbasids (Longman and Librairie du Liban, 1979), Muslim Festivals (London, 1985), Sacrilege Versus Civility: Muslim Perspective on The Satanic verses Affair (co-edited with A.R. Kidwai) (Leicester, 1991). THE ISLAMIC FOUNDATION is an educational and research organization devoted to making Islam a living reality in our age. For this purpose, it aims to improve human communication and develop a better understanding of Islam among all people of the world, Muslim and non-Muslim, so as to galvaniz man to the message and ideal of One God and the unity of mankind, a' brought by all the Prophets of God throughout the ages, last of whom was th Prophet Muhammad (blessings of Allah and peace be on him). Th Foundation has research units in Islamic Economics, Christian-Musli Relations, Muslim Central Asia and Literature for Children. Its re gula publications include Muslim World Book Review (quarterly), Index of islami Literature (quarterly), Central Asia Brief (two-monthly) and FOCUS o Christian-Muslim Relations (monthly).
Size : 21.5x13.5 / 8 x 5 inches
Weight : 150 gm / 0.33 lbs
Pages : 116
Binding : Paper Back