The Performance of Multilingual and ‘Ultralingual’ Devotional Practices by Young British Muslims

Andrey Rosowsky is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield, UK. His publications include Aspects of Performance in Faith Settings: Heavenly Acts (ed., Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019) and Faith and Language Practices in Digital Spaces (Multilingual Matters, 2017).

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Acknowledgements

Foreword

1. Introduction 

2. Multilingual and Ultralingual Devotional Practices among British Muslim Youth

3. The Research of Ultralingual Practice in the Community: A 'Gentle Ethnography'

4. Ultralingual Language Practice in Devotional Settings

5. Ultralingual Devotional Performance in 2000 and in 2019

6. 'Al-Qur'an': The Sacred Text and its Centrality (Mosque School A)

7. The Qur'anic Supplementary School in a Superdiverse Setting (Mosque School B)

8. 'Naat and Nasheed: The Performance of Devotional Songs and Poetry (Mosque School C)

9. Leaving 'the Mawlana and the Child' Behind (Mosque School D)

10. 'Binding and Shifting': Language Continuity and Linguistic Change in Ultralingual Devotional Practices

References 

Index