- Yakoub Islam
Yunus Yakoub Islam is a UK-based
Muslim , blogger, [http://www.bayyinat.org.uk/husna.htm poet] , and cyber-activist. Born Julian Hoare in 1963, he changed his name to Julian Anderson in 1982 prior to marrying his then girlfriend, Julie Harte. He discoveredanarchism in the 1980s through the works of the punk bandCrass , but later distanced himself from the anti-religious punk scene to explore academic learning, eventually converting toIslam in 1991. His son and youngest child was diagnosed with anautism spectrum disorder in 1995. He worked as a special needs teacher until 2002, when he resigned in order to become his son's primary care-giver.Yakoub has written for the [http://www.islamic-foundation.org.uk/mwbr.html Muslim World Book Review] , [http://www.q-news.com/358.htm Q-News] , [http://www.altmuslim.com/perm.php?id=1250_0_25_0_C Alt.Muslim] and [http://www.muslimwakeup.com/main/archives/2004/05/white_weird_and.php Muslim Wake Up] . He is an erratic correspondent to national newspapers, and his letters have been published in The Times, Guardian and [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/08/01/dt0102.xml. Sunday Telegraph] .
In 2008, Yakoub began to develop a research approach called 'Islam and Culture', inspired by
Malory Nye's 'Religion and Culture' episteme, a multidisciplinary methodology whereby religion and culture are understood as integral to each other. This perspective privileges as participants those Muslim voices who resist Western racist,Islamophobic and imperialist discourses as well as those Muslims whose practices are in tension with Muslim elites, including LGBTIQ Muslims. Its analysis focuses on the representation and reproduction of regimes of truth, preferringautoethnographic narratives as its research outcome, in keeping with its radical anti-elitist stance.External links
* [http://www.bayyinat.org.uk/index.html Tasneem Project]
* [http://anarchlyst.wordpress.com/ Blog]
* [http://www.bayyinat.org.uk/terror.htm The Daily Terror]
* [http://muslimstan.net/?p=104 Counterfactual Briarland]
* [http://anarchlyst.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/why-cultural-anarchlysm/ Why Cultural Anarchlyst?]
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