Sport in Islam and in Muslim Communities

Alberto Testa is a senior lecturer in criminology at the Ealing Law School, University of West London, UK. He has an academic background in sociology and is a certified sociological practitioner who has gained international recognition as an applied sociologist. Alberto's research interests focus on the application of social behaviourism to make sense of deviance and crime. Within this theoretical framework, his particular areas of expertise are fourfold: football crowd behaviour and disorder; policing and civil liberties; European neo-fascism and neo-Nazism; and radicalisation and Islamophobia. His current research is on Italian Muslim youth, marginalisation and IslamophobiaMahfoud Amara is Assistant Professor in Sport Management and Policy at the College of Arts and Sciences (Sport Science Program), Qatar University. Before joining Qatar University he was Lecturer in Sport Policy and Management and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Olympic Studies and Research in the School of Sport, Exercise and HealthSciences, Loughborough University. Dr Amara has a specific interest in sport business, culture, and politics in Arab and Muslim contexts. He has published material on the politics of the Pan-Arab Games, sport in colonial and post-colonial Algeria, sport and the business of media broadcasting in the Arab world, the sport and modernisation debate in the Gulfregion; sport development and development through sport in the Arab World. His other research interest is sport, multiculturalism and intercultural dialogue.