Associate Professor Dr Tahir Abbas FRSA

Tahir Abbas is currently Associate Professor of Sociology, Fatih University, Istanbul (and Schonbrunn Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem during January and February, 2012). Until June 2009, Dr Abbas was Reader in Sociology and founding Director of the Birmingham University Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Culture (2003-2009). He was previously Senior Research Officer at the Department for Constitutional Affairs and at the Home Office (2001-2003), Director of Race Equality West Midlands (1999-2001) and ESRC Research Fellow at the Birmingham City University Business School (1998-1999). He has a B.Sc.(Econ) in Economics with Mathematical Studies from Queen Mary, University of London (with Introduction to Individual and Social Psychology taken at the London School of Economics and Political Science), a M.Soc.Sc. in Economic Development and Policy from the University of Birmingham, and a Ph.D. in Ethnic Relations from the University of Warwick.

Abbas is author of Islamic Radicalism and Multicultural Politics: The British Experience (Routledge, 2011), The Education of British South Asians: Ethnicity, Capital and Class Structure (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004); editor of Muslim Britain: Communities under Pressure (Zed, 2005), Islamic Political Radicalism: A European Perspective (Edinburgh, 2007) and Islam and Education (Routledge, 2010, 4-volumes); and co-editor of Immigration and Race Relations: Sociological Theory and John Rex (I B Tauris, 2007, with F Reeves) and Honour, Violence, Women and Islam (Routledge-Cavendish, 2010, with M M Idriss, in press). He has also published over seventy journal articles and book chapters, and numerous essays, book reviews and opinion-editorials.

His recent writing has focused on ideas of integration and multiculturalism, and questions in relation to the radicalisation of Muslim minority youth. He also has a special interest in theoretical, philosophical and historical questions in relation to cultural cohesion and the social relations between minorities and majorities in different Western nation-states, in particular in Western European societies, and in a historical and contemporary context.

Abbas is Associate Editor of Sociology of Islam (Brill, from Spring 2012) and Editorial Board Member of the Conflict and Peace Studies (Pak Institute for Peace Studies, Islamabad), Middle East Studies Online Journal (ISSN 2109-9618, Paris) and European Journal of Economic and Political Studies (Istanbul). Dr Abbas is also on the Advisory Board of the Muslim Youth Helpline, is a Fellow of the Muslim Institute and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London.

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Last updated 11 May 2012.

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