The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Muslim funeral practice
Ahmed, N. 2016
‘Making a good death: Muslim burial sites and practices in Britain from 1800 to the present’ in J. Garnett & A. Harris (eds) Rescripting Religion in the City. Migration and Religious Identity in the Modern Metropolis, London: Routledge, 103-114.
Ansari, H. 2007
‘“Burying the dead”: making Muslim space in Britain’, Historical Research, 80: 2, pp545-566.
Breemer, R. van der, & M. Maussen 2012
‘On the viability of State-Church models: Muslim burial and mosque building in France and the Netherlands’, Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 10:3, 279-298.
Christians, L., De Pooter, P. & Tilkin, G. 2011
‘Islam et parcelles confessionnelles dans les cimetieres en Belgique’, Revue de Droit Communal, 2, 2-12.
Felepchuk, W., Osman, M., & Keller, K. 2022
‘Even in death, we’re being denied our place as human beings’: geographic Islamophobia and Muslim cemeteries in the English-speaking West’, International Journal of Islamic Architecture, 11:1, 121-146.
Gardener, K. 1998
‘Death, burial and bereavement amongst Bengali Muslims in Tower Hamlets, East London’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 24:3, 507-21.
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Hunter, A. 2016
‘Deathscapes in diaspora: contesting space and negotiating home in contexts of post-migration diversity’, Social and Cultural Geography, 17: 2, 247-261.
Islam, F 2022
‘Pandemic-induced deathscapes: end-of-life, funerary and bereavement challenges for British-Bangladeshi Muslims’, Social & Cultural Geography, 24: 3-4, 409-427.
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Kadrouch-Outmany, K. 2013
‘Burial practices and desires among Muslims in the Netherlands: a matter of belonging’, Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies, 33.2-34.1, 107-128.
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Kadrouch-Outmany, K. 2016
‘Religion at the cemetery: Islamic burials in the Netherlands and Belgium’, Contemporary Islam, 10, 87-105.
Klapetek, M. 2019
‘Şehitlik Mosque and the Islamic Cemetery at Columbiadamm: Islam in public space.” Studia Religiologica. Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego 52:1, 63-77.
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Maddrell, A., Beebeejaun, Y., McClymont, K. & 2 others 2022
‘Remembering, forgetting and (dis)enfranchised grief in everyday settings in English and Welsh towns: migrants’ and minorities’ translocal and local memories associated with funerary spaces and practices’, Emotion, Space and Society, 44, 100895.
Neilsen, H. 2014
‘Det sidste hvilested: om tilhørsfordhold og identitetsdannelse blandt muslimer I Danmark’, Kulturstudier, 5:1, 6-30.
Nunez, J. 2011
‘La gestion publique des espaces confessionnels des cimetières de la ville de Paris : l’example du culte musulman (1857-1957)’, Le Mouvement Social, 237, 13-32.
Pirenne, E. 2019
‘Mourir comme musulman au Luxembourg: practiques et défis contemporains’ in S. Kmec, R. Philippart & A. Reuter (eds) Ewige Ruhe? Grabkulturen in Luxembourg und den Nachbarrregionen, Luxembourg : CapybaraBooks, 267-274
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Ramadan, M. 2019
‘Les cimetières et le droit musulman’, in A. Fornerod (ed.) Le Pluralism Religieux dans les Cimetières en Europe, Strasbourg : Press Universitaires de Strasbourg, 211-238.
Ranaerts, M. 1997
‘La mort: de l’exclusion à l’intégration’, in F. Dassetto (ed.) Facettes de L’Islam Belge, Louvain-La-Neuve : Académia-Bruylant, 213-223.
Razavimaleki, B. & Martinez, H. 2014
‘Negotiating an Islamic burial’, Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia, 2:2.
