Full Description
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.
Contents
Publisher's Preface
Editors' Introduction
List of Contributors
Bibliography of Jørgen S. Nielsen
Part 1: Conceptualizing Islam and Muslims
1 Between Islam as a Generic Category and Muslim Exceptionalism
Thijl Sunier
2 European Muslims as Skilled Kite Flyers
Werner Menski
3 Does European Islam Think?
Mohammed Hashas
4 Churchification of Islam in Europe
Niels Valdemar Vinding
5 "Perpetual First Generation": Religiosity and Territoriality in Belonging Strategies of Turks of France
Samim Akgönül
Part 2: Producing Islam and Muslims in Europe
6 Alternative Dispute Resolution among Muslims in Germany and the Debate on "Parallel Justice"
Mathias Rohe
7 Islamic Law in Lithuania? Its Institutionalisation, Limits and Prospects for Application
Egdūnas Račius
8 The King, the Boy, the Monk and the Magician: Jihadi Ideological Entrepreneurship between the UK and Denmark
Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen
9 "Allah is Ignorance": An Essay on the Poetic Praxis of Yahya Hassan and the Critique of Liberal Islam
Thomas Hoffmann
Part 3: Multitudes of Muslims in Europe
10 Human First - To be Witnesses to Each Other's Life: Twenty-one Years of Struggle for Equal Human Dignity
Naveed Baig, Lissi Rasmussen and Hans Raun Iversen
11 Muslims Accused of Apostasy: An Ahmadi Refutation
Göran Larsson
12 Marginalised Islam: Christianity's Role in the Sufi Order of Bektashism
Emil B.H. Saggau
13 Islamic Literature in Bosnian Language 1990-2012: Production and Dissemination of Islamic Knowledge at the Periphery
Ahmet Alibašić
14 European Islam in the Light of the Bosnian Experience
Safet Bektovic
Index
