'Deeply researched and dizzying in its detail, this book will likely stand as a seminal work on British Muslims' - Dr Shadi Hamid, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution and author of Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World, 'Dr Sadek Hamid has the perfect combination of personal biography and experience, allied to academic rigour and attention to detail that makes this a nuanced, timely, well-informed contribution to debate about Islam in Britain today.' - Sophie Gilliat-Ray, Professor in Religious and Theological Studies at Cardiff University and author of Muslims in Britain: An Introduction, 'Quite simply, breathtaking' - Aftab A. Malik, Global Expert on Muslim Affairs, UN Alliance of Civilizations, 'Sadek Hamid's book is absolutely essential reading ... It rescues Islamism from the rhetoric of terrorism and highlights the essential differences between 'islamicisation' and 'radicalisation.' - Prof. Ron Geaves. Honorary Visiting Professor in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion at Cardiff University author of Islam in Victorian Britain: The Life and Times of Abdullah Quilliam, 'Sadek Hamid has offered up an excellent, panoramic study of a misunderstood community. Deeply researched and dizzying in its detail, this book will likely stand as a seminal work on British Muslims. More than that, however, Hamid has much to say on Islam's role in public life and what it means to be Muslim. The book is also about that most universal of questions: the search for meaning and identity in an increasingly confusing and uncertain political moment.' - Dr Shadi Hamid, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution and author of Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World, 'It is a pleasure to commend this book by one of the leading scholars of Islam in Britain. Dr Sadek Hamid has the perfect combination of personal biography and experience, allied to academic rigour and attention to detail that makes this a nuanced, timely, well-informed contribution to debate about Islam in Britain today.' - Prof. Sophie Gilliat-Ray, Professor in Religious and Theological Studies at Cardiff University and author of Muslims in Britain: An Introduction, 'Quite simply, breathtaking. A real tour de force in every sense of the word. Sadek Hamid painstakingly charts and navigates with precision, the landscape of British Islam by identifying the major intellectual trends competing and at times, vying with one another for authority among second-and third-generation Muslim Britons. In so doing, he also introduces the key individuals who have shaped or contributed to the religious currents in what is an engaging tale of religious activism and often inter-group rivalry across Great Britain. This surely will become a primer for understanding the richness, complexities, challenges and fault-lines of Islam in Britain today, and hence, essential reading for policy-makers, students and general readers alike.' - Aftab A. Malik, Global Expert on Muslim Affairs, UN Alliance of Civilizations, 'Sadek Hamid's book is absolutely essential reading for anyone who wishes to further their knowledge of the dynamics of Islamic activism in Britain. It rescues Islamism from the rhetoric of terrorism and highlights the essential differences between 'islamicisation' and 'radicalisation.' - Prof. Ron Geaves. Honorary Visiting Professor in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion at Cardiff University author of Islam in Victorian Britain: The Life and Times of Abdullah Quilliam, 'Dr Hamid has written an invaluable study illuminating and evaluating the changing landscape of Islamic activism in Britain over the last thirty years. He devotes a chapter each to four faces of activism: reformist Islamist, radical pan-Islamist, Salafi and neo-Sufi. Their transnational origins, history, evolution and mutual rivalries are mapped and assessed in a measured, non-sensational and accessible manner. He also explores the extent to which they are positioned to respond appropriately to the experiences and questions of a new, media savvy generation of British Muslims. Indispensable for policy makers, academics, students and the general reader.' - Dr Phil Lewis, author of Young, Muslim and British and Islamic Britain (I.B. Tauris, 2002), 'This well researched study provides an alternative, altogether insightful perspective of socio-religious trends that continue to influence and shape the landscape of Islamic activism in 21st Century Britain. It is unique in that it provides a comprehensive, insider-based account regarding movements that competed to promulgate often similar reforms but from differing standpoints.' - Dr Abdul Haqq Baker, author of Extremists in Our Midst: Confronting Terror and former Chairman of Brixton Mosque, London, 'The author of this perceptive study provides a sharp analysis of what is happening among the religiously active parts of the new generation of Muslims in Britain. He covers the spectrum from those opting out of or pushing back against the British context to those who are critically and constructively engaging with it. One would wish that people in the media and political debates would read this study before pronouncing.' - Jorgen S. Nielsen, Professor in Contemporary European Islam. University of Birmingham, 'Sadek Hamid in his authoritative and enlightening new book pinpoints how currents in Britain's Islamic reform movement found themselves vulnerable to changes by becoming irrelevant to the majority of young, generally working class, Muslims, effectively abandoning them to face deep-root social and economic problems within their communities and intensifying Islamophobic discourses without.' - Hassan Mahamdallie, Deputy Editor of Critical Muslim