Exploring the multitude of Muslims in Europe : essays in honour of Jørgen S. Nielsen /

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 explorati...

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Other Authors: Nielsen, Jørgen S. (honouree.), Vinding, Niels Valdemar (Editor), Račius, Egdūnas (Editor), Thielmann, J. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.
Series:Muslim minorities.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Exploring the Multitude of Muslims in Europe: Essays in Honour of Jørgen S. Nielsen; Copyright; Contents; Publisher's Preface; Editors' Introduction; Note from Aminah B. McCloud; List of Contributors; Bibliography of Jørgen S. Nielsen; Part 1: Conceptualising Islam and Muslims; 1. Between Islam as a Generic Category and Muslim Exceptionalism; 2. European Muslims as Skilled Kite Flyers; 3. Does European Islam Think?; 4. Churchification of Islam in Europe; 5. "Perpetual First Generation": Religiosity and Territoriality in Belonging Strategies of Turks of France.
  • Part 2: Producing Islam and Muslims in Europe; 6. Alternative Dispute Resolution among Muslims in Germany and the Debate on "Parallel Justice"; 7. Islamic Law in Lithuania? Its Institutionalisation, Limits and Prospects for Application; 8. The King, the Boy, the Monk and the Magician: Jihadi Ideological Entrepreneurship between the UK and Denmark; 9. "ALLAH IS IGNORANCE": An Essay on the Poetic Praxis of Yahya Hassan and the Critique of Liberal Islam; 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.
  • 11. Muslims Accused of Apostasy: An Ahmadi Refutation; 12. Marginalised Islam: Christianity's Role in the Sufi Order of Bektashism; 13. Islamic Literature in Bosnian Language 1990-2012: Production and Dissemination of Islamic Knowledge at the Periphery; 14. European Islam in the Light of the Bosnian Experience; Index.