Piety, Pluralism and Paradox: Muslim Musical Performance and

Education in Britain

Dr Carolyn LandauLeverhulme Early Career Fellow

Department of Music, King’s College Londoncarolyn.landau@kcl.ac.uk

AHRC/ESRC RELIGION and SOCIETY PROGRAMMENew Forms of Public Religion

5th to 7th September 2012St John’s College, Cambridge

http://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/londonfacts/londonlocalgovernment/londonmapandlinks/default.htm

“‘Islamic Revival’ (al-Sahwa al-Islamiyya) is a term that refers not only to the activities of state-oriented political groups but more broadly to a religious ethos or sensibility that has developed within contemporary Muslim societies.”

Mahmood, S. (2005) Politics of piety: the Islamic revival and the feminist subject, Princeton, N.J.; Oxford, Princeton University Press, p.3.

“...is manifested in a greater religious piety and practice, a growing Islamic community infrastructure and the configuration of a distinctive Islamic public sphere enabled by media and communication technologies.”

Jouili, J. (2009) 'Music 'for the sake of Allah': Islamic Pop in the UK'. Unpublished conference paper. Migrating Music: Media, Politics and Style, SOAS University of London, 10 – 11 July 2009.

Yusuf Islam, “I look, I see”

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK36FTQX27Q

Sami Yusuf, “Hasbi Rabbi”

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpYVyEoXEGs

http://www.exhibitionroad.com/where

http://www.akdn.org/

http://www.akdn.org/aktc_music.asp

http://www.theismaili.org/go/ice

http://www.zamanafoundation.org/

• “a richly-woven tapestry, reflecting numerous geographies, languages, cultures and centuries...This pluralistic heritage is continually celebrated even as its spirit is harnessed to the contemporary world.” (http://www.theismaili.org/go/ice).

Ismaili Community Ensemble (audiovisual examples):

• http://www.theismaili.org/cms/1024/About-the-Ismaili-Community-Ensemble-UK

• http://www.theismaili.org/cms/1106/Music-Ismaili-Community-Ensemble-UK