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About Max Farrar

Max Farrar is a sociologist at Leeds Metropolitan University.

Articles by Max Farrar

Wednesday 29th October

Anatolian Muslimhood: humanising capitalism?

Max Farrar, 29 October 2008

An influential Turkish network fuses faith and modernity in search of a new social order

Thursday 27th October

In search of British Muslim identity: responses to 'Young, Angry and Muslim'

Sami Zubaida, S Sayyid, Mohammed Sajid, Max Farrar, David T, and Abdul-Rehman Malik, 27 October 2005

Navid Akhtar’s documentary film seeks the roots of alienation of young Muslims in Britain and discovers a complex story that starts long before the July bombs in London. Six viewers – S. Sayyid, Max Farrar, Mohammed Sajid, David T, Abdul-Rehman Malik, and Sami Zubaida – assess the film and the issues it highlights.

Thursday 21st July

Leeds footsoldiers and London bombs

Max Farrar, 21 July 2005

“I don’t really know why those men from Beeston set off those bombs in London, but I think I know where to look for the answers”. Max Farrar draws on his fieldwork among northern England’s deprived young people to explore the deeper roots of 7/7.

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