Max Farrar
Islamism, terrorism & the West: a better response?
These are the slides I used at my talk for the excellent Big BookEnd festival in Leeds, UK, during June 2015. I’m very grateful to Fiona Gell and her team for the invitation to speak. The talk is based on this chapter in my co-edited collection of essays Islam in the West: Key Issues in […]
Critical Multiculturalism’s response to diverse Islamic thought and practice
My friend Dr Ali-Reza Bhojani invited me to talk to his students at the Al-Mahdi Institute in Birmingham last October, so I wrote this paper and then forgot to post it. It develops the position I’ve advanced elsewhere, that I call ‘critical multiculturalism’ as a way of thinking about, and responding to, the various types […]
Revolutionary violence and jihadi Islamism
ON REVOLUTIONARY VIOLENCE: INITIATED BY THE LEFT, OR BY ARMED ISLAMISTS Terrorism in the name of Islam has dominated the news for at least fifteen years now. We’ve had 9/11 [2001], 7/7 [2005] and with the events in Paris we now have 7/1 and 9/1 [2015]. (This article refers to the recent murder by self-styled […]
On youth in the multi-cultural inner-city in the 1990s
Youth in the multi-cultural inner-city: Learning from experience I learned as much of my sociology from experience as I did from books. Ethnography has always been my preferred method. I learned to write as much from home-made journalism, particularly for Chapeltown News and Big Flame, as I did from the great literature I’ve consumed since […]