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Exploring the Multitude of Muslims in Europe
Essays in Honour of Jørgen S. Nielsen
Series: - Muslim Minorities, Volume: 27
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. Nielsenâs 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 AlibaÅ¡iÄ, Naveed Baig, Safet Bektovic, Mohammed Hashas, Thomas Hoffmann, Hans Raun Iversen, Göran Larsson, Werner Menski, EgdÅ«nas RaÄius, Lissi Rasmussen, Mathias Rohe, Emil B. H. Saggau, Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, Thijl Sunier, and Niels Valdemar Vinding.
Contributors are: Samim Akgönül, Ahmet AlibaÅ¡iÄ, Naveed Baig, Safet Bektovic, Mohammed Hashas, Thomas Hoffmann, Hans Raun Iversen, Göran Larsson, Werner Menski, EgdÅ«nas RaÄius, Lissi Rasmussen, Mathias Rohe, Emil B. H. Saggau, Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, Thijl Sunier, and Niels Valdemar Vinding.
Niels Valdemar Vinding, PhD (2013), University of Copenhagen, is Assistant Professor researching on Islam in Europe and European Muslim institutions. Currently, his focus is on âImams of the Westâ and the authority and leadership challenges amongst Muslims.
EgdÅ«nas RaÄius PhD (2004) is Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania). His research interests encompass Eastern European Muslim communities as well as Muslim revivalist movements. RaÄius is a co-editor (together with Antonina Zhelyazkova) of Islamic Leadership in the European Lands of the Former Ottoman and Russian Empires Legacy, Challenges and Change (Brill, 2018) and the author of Muslims in Eastern Europe (Edinburgh University Press, 2018).
Jörn Thielmann, Ph.D. (2001) in Islamic Studies, Ruhr-University Bochum, is Executive Director of the Erlangen Centre for Islam and Law in Europe EZIRE, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. He has published with Ala Al-Hamarneh Islam and Muslims in Germany (Brill 2008).
EgdÅ«nas RaÄius PhD (2004) is Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania). His research interests encompass Eastern European Muslim communities as well as Muslim revivalist movements. RaÄius is a co-editor (together with Antonina Zhelyazkova) of Islamic Leadership in the European Lands of the Former Ottoman and Russian Empires Legacy, Challenges and Change (Brill, 2018) and the author of Muslims in Eastern Europe (Edinburgh University Press, 2018).
Jörn Thielmann, Ph.D. (2001) in Islamic Studies, Ruhr-University Bochum, is Executive Director of the Erlangen Centre for Islam and Law in Europe EZIRE, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. He has published with Ala Al-Hamarneh Islam and Muslims in Germany (Brill 2008).
âThis collection of articles is a fitting tribute to a scholar who has set the standard and âdefined the fieldâ of research on Muslim communities in Europe. For those who have studied under, worked with, or benefited from, Jørgen S. Nielsenâs personal commitment to and academic pursuits of accurate descriptions and understandings of the various Muslim communities in Europe, this volume will not disappoint. It demonstrates how indebted many of us are to the work of Jørgen S. Nielsen.â
David D. Grafton, Hartford Seminary, The Duncan Black Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations
âJørgen S. Nielsen is rightfully acknowledged as a pioneer of the Muslims in Europe research, continuously authoring prolific texts. Whilst celebrating Nielsenâs research legacy, this collection of articles from some of the leading scholars in the field also contributes with vital and intriguing perspectives on Muslims in Europe.â
Jonas Otterbeck, professor of Islamic Studies, Lund University
David D. Grafton, Hartford Seminary, The Duncan Black Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations
âJørgen S. Nielsen is rightfully acknowledged as a pioneer of the Muslims in Europe research, continuously authoring prolific texts. Whilst celebrating Nielsenâs research legacy, this collection of articles from some of the leading scholars in the field also contributes with vital and intriguing perspectives on Muslims in Europe.â
Jonas Otterbeck, professor of Islamic Studies, Lund University
Publisherâs Preface
Editorsâ Introduction
List of Contributors
Bibliography of Jørgen S. Nielsen
1 Between Islam as a Generic Category and Muslim Exceptionalism âThijl Sunier
2 European Muslims as Skilled Kite Flyers âWerner Menski
3 Does European Islam Think? âMohammed Hashas
4 Churchification of Islam in Europe âNiels Valdemar Vinding
5 âPerpetual First Generationâ: Religiosity and Territoriality in Belonging Strategies of Turks of France âSamim Akgönül
6 Alternative Dispute Resolution among Muslims in Germany and the Debate on "Parallel Justice" âMathias Rohe
7 Islamic Law in Lithuania? Its Institutionalisation, Limits and Prospects for Application âEgdÅ«nas RaÄius
8 The King, the Boy, the Monk and the Magician: Jihadi Ideological Entrepreneurship between the UK and Denmark âJakob Skovgaard-Petersen
9 âAllah is Ignoranceâ: An Essay on the Poetic Praxis of Yahya Hassan and the Critique of Liberal Islam âThomas Hoffmann
10 Human First â To be Witnesses to Each Otherâs Life: Twenty-one Years of Struggle for Equal Human Dignity âNaveed Baig, Lissi Rasmussen and Hans Raun Iversen
11 Muslims Accused of Apostasy: An Ahmadi Refutation âGöran Larsson
12 Marginalised Islam: Christianityâs Role in the Sufi Order of Bektashism âEmil B.H. Saggau
13 Islamic Literature in Bosnian Language 1990â2012: Production and Dissemination of Islamic Knowledge at the Periphery âAhmet AlibaÅ¡iÄ
14 European Islam in the Light of the Bosnian Experience âSafet Bektovic
Index
Editorsâ 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 âThijl Sunier
2 European Muslims as Skilled Kite Flyers âWerner Menski
3 Does European Islam Think? âMohammed Hashas
4 Churchification of Islam in Europe âNiels Valdemar Vinding
5 âPerpetual First Generationâ: Religiosity and Territoriality in Belonging Strategies of Turks of France âSamim Akgönül
Part 2: Producing Islam and Muslims in Europe
6 Alternative Dispute Resolution among Muslims in Germany and the Debate on "Parallel Justice" âMathias Rohe
7 Islamic Law in Lithuania? Its Institutionalisation, Limits and Prospects for Application âEgdÅ«nas RaÄius
8 The King, the Boy, the Monk and the Magician: Jihadi Ideological Entrepreneurship between the UK and Denmark âJakob Skovgaard-Petersen
9 âAllah is Ignoranceâ: An Essay on the Poetic Praxis of Yahya Hassan and the Critique of Liberal Islam âThomas Hoffmann
Part 3: Multitudes of Muslims in Europe
10 Human First â To be Witnesses to Each Otherâs Life: Twenty-one Years of Struggle for Equal Human Dignity âNaveed Baig, Lissi Rasmussen and Hans Raun Iversen
11 Muslims Accused of Apostasy: An Ahmadi Refutation âGöran Larsson
12 Marginalised Islam: Christianityâs Role in the Sufi Order of Bektashism âEmil B.H. Saggau
13 Islamic Literature in Bosnian Language 1990â2012: Production and Dissemination of Islamic Knowledge at the Periphery âAhmet AlibaÅ¡iÄ
14 European Islam in the Light of the Bosnian Experience âSafet Bektovic
Index
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