A History of Islam in Australia

by Bilal Cleland

A comprehensive and very detailed study by Bilal Cleland of the history of Islam in Australia.

• Introduction

• Islam in our Near North
  The Fleet of Prahus
  The Impact of Macassar

• White Christian Civilisation to the East

• The Conquest of the Interior
  The Camel Communications Network
  Racism rears its head

• Muslims and the Policy of Racial Exclusion from 1901
  The Muslim Community before the Great War
  Muslim Family Life

• The Great War
  The Indians, the Empire and White Australia
  Pearling and White Australia

• Between the World Wars
  The Thinking behind Racial Classifications
  The Approach of the Second World War, Refugees and Australia

• After the Second World War
  White Australia sinks into oblivion
  Building a National Body
  Discrimination at the level of Local Government
  The Gulf War

• Conclusion