The ontology of the Muslim male offender: a critical realist framework

Irfan, Lamia; Wilkinson, Matthew

doi:10.1080/14767430.2020.1827346

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“…As stated by an informant with the initials HS (45), "The congregational culture here is more open, so anyone who wants to learn to be a preacher can as long as they do not stray, they are always given the opportunity." In the view of Irfan & Wilkinson (2020), this context can only occur because of the dynamic cultural factors of the community so that urban millennial Muslims can accommodate the existence of new ustad as a positive activity. Thus, the dominant influence of kultur among urban millennial Muslims is the dominant factor for the emergence of new religious authorities, thus forming trends and even new cultures in learning and teaching religious values to Muslims (Murphy et al, 2020).…”

Section: New Ustadz Among Urban Millennial Muslims: Cultural Factormentioning

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Rissing Authority: The New of Ustad Among Urban Millennial Muslims

Fernando

2023

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Abstrak Studi ini fokus pada pertanyaan “Faktor apa yang mendorong munculnya otoritas keagamaan baru dikalangan muslim milenial urban?” Untuk menganalisis pertanyaan tersebut studi ini menggunakan pendekatan deskripstif kualitatif terhadap sejumlah ustad muda dan jemaah dari kalangan milenial urban yang aktif mengikuti kajian-kajian di masjid. Ustad muda dan jemaah tersebut diwawancarai secara intensif tidak terstruktur untuk mengeksplorasi data mengenai praktik, pengetahuan, dan pengalaman mereka dalam mempelajari maupun menjadi seorang pendakwah di kalangan muslim milenial urban. Temuan dalam studi ini memperlihatkan bahwa munculnya otoritas keagamaan baru dikalangan muslim milenial urban dipengaruhi oleh dua faktor dominan, yaitu; Pertama, faktor struktural berupa dukungan dari jemaah maupun pengurus masjid dalam bentuk fasilitas dakwah. Kedua, faktor kultural dari jemaah dan pengurus masjid yang lebih terbuka dalam menerima dakwah ustad muda. Kata Kunci: Rissing Authority, Ustad, Kaum muslim, dan Milenial urban. Abstract Studies that have discussed this phenomenon have only focused on the adaptation and transformation of da'wah activities, so the emergence of young ustad among urban millennial Muslims has not been comprehensively discussed. This study focuses on the question, "What factors drive the emergence of new religious authorities among urban millennial Muslims?" This study uses a qualitative descriptive approach to several young religious teachers and congregations from urban millennials who actively participate in mosque studies to analyse this question. The young ustad and the congregation were interviewed in an intensive, unstructured manner to explore data regarding their practices, knowledge, and experience in studying and becoming preachers among urban millennial Muslims. The findings in this study show that two dominant factors, namely, influence the emergence of a new religious authority among urban millennial Muslims; First, structural factors in the form of support from congregations and mosque administrators in the form of da'wah facilities. Second, cultural factors from congregations and mosque administrators who are more open in accepting young ustad's da'wah. Keywords: Rissing Authority, Ustad, Muslims, and urban Millennials.

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Section: New Ustadz Among Urban Millennial Muslims: Cultural Factormentioning

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Rissing Authority: The New of Ustad Among Urban Millennial Muslims

Fernando

2023

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“…Again, with offenders, this intra-faith conversion may also be connected to a prisoner's desire to leave behind a criminal identity and behaviour. Furthermore, for some serious offenders, e.g., terrorist and sex offenders, their crime has often been accompanied or justified by skewed or misunderstood versions of religion, together with a criminal ingroup with a religious complexion, which makes a change in religious Worldview vital to their chances of leaving crime (Irfan and Wilkinson 2020;Wilkinson 2015a).…”

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Prison as a Site of Intense Religious Change: The Example of Conversion to Islam

Wilkinson¹,

Irfan²,

Quraishi³

et al. 2021

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Based on the findings of mixed-methods research conducted with 279 Muslim prisoners in 10 prisons in England, Switzerland and France, this paper argues that contemporary European prisons are sites of intense religious change, in which many people born outside Islam and many born-Muslims believe in and practise Islam for the first time. In order to map this experience of intense religious change in prison, the paper articulates an original typology of conversion to identify Muslim converts as Switchers and Intensifiers. Both of these types of convert mobilise their Islam to turn to God in acts of repentance for their crime(s), to find a renewed purpose in life and to re-gain psychological balance and inner peace. By contrast, a minority of prisoners are Reducers, whose Islamic faith diminishes in prison. A minority of converts to Islam also persist or become more deeply entrenched in the Islamist Worldview of Us vs. Them. Therefore, while choosing to follow Islam in prison carries with it some criminogenic risk, conversion to Islam is significantly more likely to help than to hinder prisoners’ rehabilitation by enabling them to feel remorse for their crimes, reconnecting them with work and education and encouraging them to find emotionally supportive company.

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‘Oh you’re on our side, you’re my brother’: occupational ontology and challenges for Muslim prison officers in Europe

Quraishi

Wilkinson

2023

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Filling a significant gap in prisons research, this paper articulates the experiences and perspectives of a group of Muslim prison officers interviewed as part of an international study examining Islam in prison. These Muslim prison officers occupied a precarious occupational cultural space between Us (prison officers) and Them (Muslim prisoners) which presented both risks of exclusion, religious and racial prejudices and opportunities to build bridges between prisoners and staff and to educate, especially in the dimension of religion. The very presence of Muslim prison officers in prisons challenged traditional occupational cultural stereotypes around both prison officers and Muslims. The disproportionately large numbers of Muslim prisoners in Europe and the haphazard way that Muslim prison officers often encounter the profession, suggest both that better training focused upon Islam in prison for existing prison officers is vital and that more directed recruitment of Muslim prison officers is needed.

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The ontology of the Muslim male offender: a critical realist framework

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

Rissing Authority: The New of Ustad Among Urban Millennial Muslims

Rissing Authority: The New of Ustad Among Urban Millennial Muslims

Prison as a Site of Intense Religious Change: The Example of Conversion to Islam

‘Oh you’re on our side, you’re my brother’: occupational ontology and challenges for Muslim prison officers in Europe

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