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‘The twain shall and do meet’: narrating conversion to Islam in Britain

Published on: 29 August 2013

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Being British and being a Muslim have previously been seen as two identities in opposition. Does the conversion of British people to Islam create a perspective that embodies not one or the other, but both?

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