British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End

Drawing on the everyday experiences of 43 British-Bangladeshi Muslims living in East London this book explores stories of migration and belonging vis-à-vis dress and language. In narrating those stories the book is framed within the broader socio-political conversations happening regarding Muslims in Britain and their ''place'' in this society. Recent work on Muslims focuses on their religious identity and its formation not paying attention to the role of dress and language. With the former much of it tends to obsessively focus on Muslim women only. This book alternatively explores religious identity formation in addition to examining the British-Bangladeshi Muslim community’s relationship with their ethnic identity vis-à-vis dress and language. As such the analysis provides a rich bottom-up analysis of the community and readers will be able to understand a community holistically away from the over-sensationalised community within broader socio-political context. -- .