Muslim Networks and Transnational Communities in and Across Europe

Muslim Networks and Transnational Communities in and Across Europe
Author: Stefano Allievi
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2003
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789004128583

This collection of twelve papers provides case studies and thematic reflections on the growing transnational networking of European Muslims and their involvement with contemporary global Islam. The volume pays particular attention to the mechanisms and significance of this phenomenon.

Muslims in the Enlarged Europe

Muslims in the Enlarged Europe
Author: Brigitte Marechal
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 632
Release: 2003-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9047402464

This volume describes a clear and overall overview on contemporary European Islam, dealing with both Western and Eastern sides. Based on wide bibliographic research as well as original national contributions from recognised scholars, it is concerned with the process of construction of Islam as well as its co-inclusion in the European societies. Muslims in the Enlarged Europe has been selected by Choice as Outstanding Academic Title (2005).

Transnational Islam in Interwar Europe

Transnational Islam in Interwar Europe
Author: Götz Nordbruch
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2014-06-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137387041

The book examines Muslim-European interactions in the interwar period and provides original insights into the emergence of geopolitical and intellectual East–West networks that transcended national, cultural, and linguistic borders.

New Multicultural Identities in Europe

New Multicultural Identities in Europe
Author: Erkan Toğuşlu
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2014-01-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9058679810

Multiculturalism in present-day Europe How to understand Europe’s post-migrant Islam on the one hand and indigenous, anti-Islamic movements on the other? What impact will religion have on the European secular world and its regulation? How do social and economic transitions on a transnational scale challenge ethnic and religious identifications? These questions are at the very heart of the debate on multiculturalism in present-day Europe and are addressed by the authors in this book. Through the lens of post-migrant societies, manifestations of identity appear in pluralized, fragmented, and deterritorialized forms. This new European multiculturalism calls into question the nature of boundaries between various ethnic-religious groups, as well as the demarcation lines within ethnic-religious communities. Although the contributions in this volume focus on Islam, ample attention is also paid to Christianity, Judaism, and Hinduism. The authors present empirical data from cases in Turkey, Germany, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Poland, Norway, Sweden, and Belgium, and sharpen the perspectives on the religious-ethnic manifestations of identity in the transnational context of 21st-century Europe.

Isma'ili Modern

Isma'ili Modern
Author: Jonah Steinberg
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2011
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0807834076

The Isma'ili Muslims, a major sect of Shi'i Islam, form a community that is intriguing in its deterritorialized social organization. Informed by the richness of Isma'ili history, theories of transnationalism and globalization, and firsthand ethnographic f

Muslims in Interwar Europe

Muslims in Interwar Europe
Author:
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2015-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789004287839

This title will be available online in its entirety in Open Access. In "Muslims in Interwar Europe," various contributors argue that Muslims constituted a group of engaged actors in the European and international space of that time.

The Bosnian Diaspora

The Bosnian Diaspora
Author: Marko Valenta
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781409412526

The Bosnian Diaspora: Integration in Transnational Communities provides an extensive exploration of a major post-conflict European Diaspora, presenting the latest trans-national comparative studies drawn from the US, Australia and countries across Europe, to explore post-crisis interactions among Bosnians and the impact of post-conflict related migration. Examining the common features of the Diaspora this volume addresses the influence of global anti-Muslim rhetoric on the Bosnian Diaspora's self-identification and refugees' relationships to their home country.

Islam in Europe

Islam in Europe
Author: S. Sofos
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2013-10-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137357789

Drawing upon extensive fieldwork and suggesting novel ways of approaching the phenomenon of European Islam and the continent's Muslim communities, Islam in Europe examines how European Muslims construct notions or identity, agency and belonging, how they negotiate and redefine the notions of religion, tradition, authority and cultural authenticity.

European Muslims, Civility and Public Life

European Muslims, Civility and Public Life
Author: Paul Weller
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2012-02-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441144471

This collection deals with challenges and opportunities faced by Muslims and the wider society in Europe following the Madrid train bombings of 2004 and the London Transport attacks of 2005. The contributors explore the challenges to the concept and practice of civility in public life within a European context, and demonstrate the contributions that can be made in this regard from the thought and practice of the global movement inspired by the Turkish Muslim scholar Fethullah Gülen. The importance and distinctiveness of the teaching of Fethullah Gülen and the practice of the movement is that it is rooted in a confident Turkish Islamic heritage while being fully engaged with modernity. It offers the possibility of a contextualised renewal of Islam for Muslims in Europe while being fully rooted in the teachings of the Qu'ran and the Sunnah of the Prophet. This volume is an important contribution to the study of the movement, which advocates the freedom of religion while making an Islamic contribution to the wider society based on a commitment to service of others. The movement and initiatives inspired by the Turkish Muslim scholar Fethullah Gülen began in Turkey, but can now be found throughout the world, including in both Europe and in the 'Muslim world'. Bloomsbury have a companion volume on The Muslim World and Politics in Transition: Creative Contributions of the Gülen Movement, edited by Greg Barton, Paul Weller and Ihsan Yilmaz.

Exploring the Multitude of Muslims in Europe

Exploring the Multitude of Muslims in Europe
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2018-03-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004362525

In Exploring the Multitude of Muslims in Europe a number of friends and colleagues of Jørgen S. Nielsen have joined together to celebrate his life and work by reflecting his more than forty years of scholarly contributions to the study of Islam and Muslims in Europe. The fourteen articles move through conceptualisations, productions and explorations of the multitudes of Muslims in Europe, and the authors draw on Jørgen S. Nielsen’s own work on the history and challenges of the Muslim community in Europe, critical thinking, ethnicities and theologies of Muslims in Europe, Muslim minorities, Muslim-Christian relations, and on Islamic legal challenges in Europe. Contributors are: Samim Akgönül, Ahmet Alibašić, Naveed Baig, Safet Bektovic, Mohammed Hashas, Thomas Hoffmann, Hans Raun Iversen, Göran Larsson, Werner Menski, Egdūnas Račius, Lissi Rasmussen, Mathias Rohe, Emil B. H. Saggau, Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, Thijl Sunier, and Niels Valdemar Vinding.