Fatih University

Faculty Member, Sociology

Associate Professor of Sociology

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Tahir Abbas is currently Associate Professor of Sociology, Fatih University, Istanbul. He was Schonbrunn Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 2012. Previously, Professor Abbas was Reader in Sociology and founding Director of the Birmingham University Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Culture (2003-2009) and Senior Research Officer at the Department for Constitutional Affairs and at the Home Office (2001-2003). 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.

Professor 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 published over a hundred journal articles, book chapters, 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.

Professor Abbas is Associate Editor of Sociology of Islam (Brill) 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). Professor 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, all in London.

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