Muslim Youth and the 9/11 Generation

Muslim Youth and the 9/11 Generation

Islam and the West

Muslim Youth and the 9/11 Generation

Author(s): Adeline Masquelier & Benjamin F. Soares

Reviewed by: Murad Wilfried Hofmann, Bonn, Germany

 

Review

The 10 chapters of this book are written by different authors: Hatsuki Aishima, Mayanthi I. Fernando, Noorhaidi Hasan, Simon Hawkins, Magnus Marsden, Adeline Masquelier, Hisyar Ozsoy, Benjamin F. Soares, and Jennifer A. Selby. The book’s chapters deal with “The Rage of Young Martyrs: A Unifying Ideology in the Tunisian Revolution”; “Kurdish Children in Turkey”; “Becoming Taliban: Islam and Youth in Northern Afghanistan”; “Are We All Amr Khaled? Islam and the Facebook Generation in Egypt”; “The Unpredictable Imagination of Muslim French Citizenship”; “Funky Teenagers Love God”: Islam and Youth Activities in Post-Suharto Indonesia”; “Malian Youth between Sufism and Satan”; “The Diamond Ring Now Is the Thing: Young Muslim Torotonian Women Negotiating Mahr on the Web”; and “The Mouthpiece of an Entire Generation; Hip-Hop, Truth, and Islam in Niger”....


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