Tablighis in Britain: Adapting to Shifting Contexts

Abstract

In his forward to Philip Lewis’ Young, British and Muslim, Jon Snow, a veteran British broadcaster, poses the following seminal questions:

How is our society coping with the significant influx and development of Muslim populations in the United Kingdom? In turn, and as important, how are those populations managing to survive, prosper and integrate within British society? Sadly it seems to have taken the 9/11 attacks in the United States, and the London bombings of 7 July 2005 to spark the debate. But debate there now is, at last. (Snow in Lewis 2007: ix)