Shii News – ‘Twelver Shia Networks in London’ – O. Scharbrodt

Creating a Diasporic Public Sphere in Britain: Twelver Shia Networks in London

Since the 1980s, the Borough of Brent, in north-west London, has been a major global hub of transnational Twelver Shiism. With the influx of Iraqi refugees, many clerical leaders of Twelver Shia Islam established their European headquarters in Brent, and, in addition to Damascus and Tehran, London became a major centre of Iraqi diaspora politics during Saddam Hussein’s regime.

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