The Halal Frontier: Muslim Consumers in a Globalized Market

by Johan Fischer

Book Overview

Halal: Arabic, literally "permissible" or "lawful." Johan Fischer's illuminating studyproves that in the modern world, halal is no longer an expression of esoteric forms of production, trade, and consumption, but part of a huge and expanding globalized market. Exploring contemporary forms of halal understanding and practice among Malay Muslims in London - that is, halal consumption by middle-class Malays on "the frontier" - evokes important and pressing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230114180
• ISBN13: 9780230114180
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.1"