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Vol. 2 No. 3 (2017)

Articles

Muslim Memories in Victoria: Building Communities and Interfaith Relations from the 1950s to the 1980s

https://doi.org/10.55831/ajis.v2i3.55

Published 18.10.2017

  • Dzavid Haveric
Dzavid Haveric
Research Fellow, Charles Sturt University, Australia

Abstract

There is no history of Islam in Australia without a history of Muslim communities; there is no history of these Muslim communities without the memories of Australian Muslims. Within Australia’s religiously pluralistic mosaic there is no history of the Muslim faith without sharing universal values with other faiths.

This paper is primarily based on empirical research undertaken in Victoria. It is a pioneering exploration of the building of multiethnic Muslim communities and interfaith relations from the 1950s to the 1980s. It is part of much broader research on the history of Islam in Australia. It is kaleidoscopic in its gathering of individual and family migrant memories from Muslims in all walks of life. It includes an older Muslim generation as well as those who came later, in subsequent waves. Muslim interviewees in the research were migrants of various ethnicities from Albania, Bosnia, Cyprus, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Pakistan, Palestine, Sri Lanka, Syria, Turkey, Tanzania and Kenya. Muslim men and women are represented, and also those born in Australia. This research was enhanced by consulting Islamic and Christian archival sources.

Keywords

Islam , Muslims, Multiethnic, Interfaith, Religiou centre

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