Riaz Hassan and the Empirical Sociology of Muslim Piety

Bryan S. Turner

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004737372_003

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Riaz Hassan covered an extraordinary range of subjects in a career of over 40 years: housing, suicide, euthanasia, citizenship, and Muslim societies. Most of these topics were controversial, politically complex, and global in their reach and implications. In this contribution, I focus exclusively on his many publications to the sociology of Islam. In this area, he made many influential publications: Faithlines (2002), Inside Muslim Minds (2008), Islam and Society: Sociological Explorations (2014), and Indian Muslims: Struggling for Equal Citizenship (2016). In recent years, the study of Islam has expanded partly because of conflicts with Muslim societies, especially after 9/11. It would be wrong, however, to think that Hassan’s work had a strong political agenda. He was clearly aware of Islamophobia, as his research on Australian Muslims (Hassan, 2018) illustrates. However, the general purpose of his many studies was to understand how Muslims think about themselves and their place in the world. Of course, after 9/11 there was a sudden avalanche of publications attempting to explain ‘political Islam,’ or ‘Islamic fundamentalism.’ Hassan’s contribution was to conduct large international surveys to allow Muslims to speak for themselves. He brought excellent research methods and strategies into a field that was overpopulated by opinions and underpopulated by evidence. The other obvious point of his research was its comparative dimension: for example, Faithlines was an ambitious study of 4,000 respondents from Indonesia, Egypt, Pakistan, and Kazakhstan. Although his work was not politically driven, throughout his career he was concerned with the inequalities experienced by Muslims in Western societies and the misunderstanding they confronted in their daily lives. In a late publication, Indian Muslims: Struggling for Equal Citizenship (2016), he was also exercised by the problems Muslims face in terms of citizenship.

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Muslims in Contemporary Australia

Reihe: Muslim Minorities, Band: 47

ISBN:: 9789004737372

Verleger:: Brill

Print-Publikationsdatum:: 20 Oct 2025

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