Muslims making Australia home: Immigration and Community Building

Dzavid Haveric

Melbourne University Publishing, Jul 16, 2019 - Social Science - 270 pages

The story of Islam and the Muslim people is an integral part of Australian history. This book covers the period from post-World War II until the 1980s when the history of Islam in Australia unfolded into a rich multi-ethnicity, manifested by diverse Muslim ethnic groups. Muslim migrants found Islam in Australia more pluralistic than they found possible in their homeland, because in Australia they met fellow Muslims from many different ethnic, racial, cultural, sectarian and linguistic backgrounds. Muslims are an integral part of Australia’s social fabric and multicultural way of life, shaping their Muslimness in an Australian context and their Australianness from Muslim viewpoints and experiences. Documenting socio-historical characteristics rather than providing a theological interpretation, Muslims Making Australia Home covers interrelated Islamic themes in the sociology of religion by noting how these themes reappear in cultural history. The book reveals many unknown or little-known historical facts, stories and valuable memories.

Islamic Studies Series - Volume 28

About the author

Dzavid Haveric is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation, and the Centre for Public and Contextual Theology at Charles Sturt University. He is also a Research Associate at Museum Victoria. He has worked as a Project Officer and Program Assistant at the Parliament of the World’s Religions within the Victorian Multicultural Commission. He also worked as a reporter at the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) Radio Program for the Bosnian Community. Dr Haveric is the author of ten books, and number of newspaper articles and radio reports.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Muslims making Australia home: Immigration and Community Building
• Author: Dzavid Haveric
• Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing, 2019
• ISBN: 0522875823, 9780522875829
• Length: 270 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Islamic Studies